On Tue, Apr 3, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Ballet wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 04:35:17PM +0100, Otto Maddox wrote: > > I have a Python project which follows a client-server architecture. It > > is natural to develop it as two different projects and in two different > > source distributions, myproject-server.tar.gz and > > myproject-client.tar.gz. > > > > Neither package depends on the other, but because they are part of a > > larger, overarching project, I want install each of them so that they > > appear as subpackages (myproject.server and myproject.client) under a > > common superpackage (myproject). I am looking for the cleanest and most > > correct way to do this using distutils and setup.py, so that I can end > > up with a structure like this:
[snip] > You would probably interested about setuptools' namespace support for > doing this, you can have a look at > http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#namespace-packages That looks like it might be do the trick. I will evaluate this sort of solution, and compare it with Rob's suggestion to use distutils2. > Additionnaly, if you are looking for examples, the Zope community is > well known for the use of namespaced packages - have a look at the > zope., zc., z3c., collective., plone., etc. namespaces. Thank you. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
