On 23 April 2015 at 08:16, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 04/22/2015 03:25 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 22.04.2015 21:08, Robert Collins wrote: >>> So - pip would have to a) detect both styles of package, b) >>> automatically install all installed-but-wrong-style versions to match >>> the site installed ones. And if any of the packages in the namespace >>> only support legacy, everything would be clamped down to legacy. >> >> I don't think support mixed setups is really a practical option. > > Isn't it supposed to be a supported feature? > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/#migrating-from-legacy-namespace-packages > > I realize I should know this, but it's been a while since I wrote it. > And I'd swear there are test for this, but I can't find them right now. > But I'm away from home and will have more time to research this later.
I'm not sure if that was done. Certainly the caveat there - no dynamic path support - is somewhat key for the scenarios I was looking at (e.g. tests in the current tree using 'setup develop' / pip install -e . -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
