2009/10/14 kiorky <[email protected]>: > As i understood, NS.foo from setuptools can't be imported in NS.bar from > pkgutil > and vice versa.
Oh, in the same namespace? Yeah, that could break. Is that a problem? Also, pkgutil doesn't know about setuptools, so possibly that breaks, but its' definitely possible to import a pkgutil namespace from a setuptools namespace (at least different namespaces). The new function obviously knows about both pkgutil and setuptools and could therefore make sure it's compatible. If it wasn't, it would be completely useless. > You can't ask everyone to repackage/adapt their existing stuff because of your > whims. Obviously. > Nowodays, lot of packages use setuptools's namespaces, i want them to just > work. I see no reason that they should not continue to work. > At the moment, the only thing i see is that distribute break many things in > many > places without any sense of backward compatibility for 0.7. Don't worry about vapourware. > That's not an answer, that's not viable. Yes it is. Again: This is backwards compatibility for the package that sets up the namespace we are talking about here. Not other packages that doesn't know anything about Distutils. Nobody is proposing that we break all namespace packages in existance. Neither Tarek nor Martin is that stupid. Have some trust in people. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
