On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Manlio Perillo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? > * is it efficient to use? It is slower than "conventional" packages import. I still don't understand the whole implementation well, but I think there is an inherent added cost (i.e. any namespace implementation will cost something), even though the implementation could be better (setuptools namespace implementation depends on pkg_resources, which is a complicated and quite slow piece of code). Whether it matters entirely depends on what you are doing. > * any reason why one should not use it? If you already depend on setuptools in your package, I would say there is not much reason. One problem with the setuptools implementation is that several packages sharing the same namespace have files in common, which is often a pain to package generally for native packages (be it linux packages and otherwise). Removing this limitation is one of the stated goal of PEP 382. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
