I just had an idea, no idea if it's good or not: You could try including both the Python 2 and Python 3 source code in the sdist, but select different ones for install depending on the Python version.
I haven't tried this, but I can't come up with a reason it wouldn't work. If anyone else can, please tell me before Thursday. ;-) -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python3porting.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 22:40, cool-RR <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > I want to ask you a question regarding something I want to do with my app. > The reason I'm asking here is because I understand that Distribute somehow > installs itself as "setuptools". (I've never looked into the details of it.) > And I want something similar, so maybe you can advise me how to do it. > I'm developing a package called `garlicsim`. The package is intended for > Python 2.X, but I am also offerring Python 3 support on a different fork > called `garlicsim_py3`.(1) > So both of these packages live side by side on PyPI, and Python 3 users > install `garlicsim_py3`, and Python 2 users install `garlicsim`. > The problem is: When third party modules want to use garlicsim, they should > have one package name to refer to, not two. Sure, they can do something like > this: > try: > import garlicsim > except ImportError: > import garlicsim_py3 as garlicsim > But I would prefer not to make the developers of these modules do this. > Is there a way that `garlicsim_py3` will install itself under the alias > `garlicsim`? What I want is for a Python 3 user to be able to `import > garlicsim` and refer to the module all the time as `garlicsim`, but that it > will really be `garlicsim_py3`. > ---------- > (1) I've reached the decision to support Python 3 on a fork instead of in > the same code base; It's important for me that the code base will be clean, > and I would really not want to introduce compatibilty hacks. > Thanks, > Ram Rachum. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
