On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 02:51 PM 10/13/2009 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> >> Really the run-time >> code needed to support namespace packages should be split out into a >> separate package and eventually added to the standard library. > > Are you volunteering? ;-)
No. :) I'd love to, but I'm over committed as it is. > Seriously, MvL's namespace package PEP (#382) already takes care of most > everything that's needed. With it in place, the only advantage of > setuptools' approach is the ability to add more items to a package __path__ > after it's already imported. (i.e., the fixup feature.) > > I heartily approve of that PEP, in case it's not obvious. I'd love to see > it in Python 2.7, and will happily add support for it in setuptools 0.7. Awesome! Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
