On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > It might matter if we want to enable third-party package installation > into a namespace also used by the stdlib: ISTR that the 'xml' package > had such installs at one point.
Almost, but not quite. The xml package at one point allowed itself to be overridden by another package (_xmlplus specifically), however that was define. Experience proved that this was a mistake. "Namespace packages", as originally defined by setuptools and applied for the hurry, zc, and zope packages (and many others), are a very different thing than what was done for the xml/_xmlplus package, and have proven significantly more useful and usable. While I heartily approve of "namespace packages" of that sort, I see no reason to support installing into the same package namespace as the standard library. The primary disadvantage I see is that it would be too easy to foster confusion over what's in the standard library among newcomers. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ 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
