On 22 April 2015 at 22:13, Christoph Schmitt <dev-maili...@gongy.de> wrote: > Hello again, > > since I haven't got any replies yet I'm trying to make myself a bit more > precise now. I consider the behaviour described in my original posting a > bug. I posted to this list because the setuptools docs say "Please use the > distutils-sig mailing list [3] for questions and discussion about
> Test 3) > DO NOT delcare namespace_packages=['coolpkg'] in setup.py of each project > Result: all modules can be imported This is correct AFAICT. the setuptools namespace_packages thing predates PEP-420, and because PEP-420 namespaces don't interoperate with .pth file based packages (expecially when you get into interactions between system non-PEP-420 + virtualenv PEP-420 packages!) changing this is super hard: you'll guarantee to break many existing installs. Perhaps there should be a new keyword, but since nothing is needed to make things work, it seems like it would be rather redundant. -Rob _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
