On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> This seems SO SIMPLE. > > ... > What am I missing? > > Prior to PEP 420 you needed the dynamic path stuff because sometimes your > namespace package is split across multiple locations on sys.path. > OK -- sure you'd need it then -- still not sure why we need to scatter namespace packages all of the file system though -- or why we couldn't do it the quick and dirty and easy way for most cases, anyway... PEP 420 more or less solves all of the problems with namespace packages, > other than it’s a Python 3 only feature so most people aren’t going to be > willing to depend on it. > yeah there's always that -- maybe I'll revisit namespace packages when I've made the full transition to py3... On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > This gets at the heart of the motivation for PEP 420, at least for me with > my > distro-developer hat on. Any single file can only be owned by exactly one > distro-level package. > I see -- that' a pain. though it seems to me to be a limitation of the distro-packaging systems, not a python one -- though maybe we need to work with it anyway...And distro packages need shared directories already -- seems like a lot of work for an empty __init__.py ;-) Thanks for the clarification. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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