At 07:34 PM 1/6/2008 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: >Steven Bethard wrote: > > Do we really want to encourage this? Wouldn't that just introduce > > more pyxml-like nightmares? I've been bitten way too many times by > > pyxml overwriting the regular xml package and causing version > > incompatibilities. I'd hate for this kind of thing to become common > > practice. > >I like to give 3rd party software a chance to *extend* a name space >package like xml rather then to overwrite it. As far as I understand >your problem pyxml is overwriting the name space and claiming it for >itself rather than extending it.
Indeed. It should also be noted that namespace packages are actually a very mature technology at this point. Before setuptools, pkgutil already supported them, from the time of 2.3's release. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
