[Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Manlio Perillo
Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts. * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? * is it efficient to use? * any reason why one should not use it? Thanks Manlio ___

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Baiju M
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts. * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? * is it efficient to use? * any reason why one should

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 21, 2010, at 05:37 PM, Baiju M wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts. * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? * is it

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Apr 21, 2010, at 05:37 PM, Baiju M wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts.

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Manlio Perillo wrote: Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts. * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? * is it efficient to use? I have heard that it is slow if you're operating on NFS, as it causes lots more

Re: [Distutils] Passing user and password to easy_install

2010-04-21 Thread P.J. Eby
At 10:20 AM 4/16/2010 +0200, Luigi GMail wrote: Therefore instead of making an egg file, easy_install should simply run `python setup.py install`. Do you know whether this is possible? Maybe using a different tool instead of easy_install? The 'pip' tool does this.

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Last time we've mentioned this pep on Python-dev, Martin said he would do its implementation. Therefore, I am not sure what's the state on his side,.. cc'ing him Unfortunately, I haven't made any progress - I still *plan* to do it before the 3.2 betas, though. Contributions are welcome, of

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 21, 2010, at 08:45 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Last time we've mentioned this pep on Python-dev, Martin said he would do its implementation. Therefore, I am not sure what's the state on his side,.. cc'ing him Unfortunately, I haven't made any progress - I still *plan* to do it before

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 20:37, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts. * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? All of Zope and Plone uses it all the time. Trust us, it

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread Manlio Perillo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Regebro ha scritto: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 20:37, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: Hi. I would like to use support to namespace packages in setuptools, however I have some doubts. * will this feature be supported for

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread P.J. Eby
At 09:26 PM 4/21/2010 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote: But I do not want to use a feature that it is here for compatiblity only, in a new project. Python itself has supported namespace packages through a stdlib utility since Python 2.3, and special import mechanism support has been proposed for

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Manlio Perillo manlio_peri...@libero.it wrote: * will this feature be supported for future setup tools? * is it efficient to use? It is slower than conventional packages import. I still don't understand the whole implementation well, but I think there is an

Re: [Distutils] namespace packages

2010-04-21 Thread P.J. Eby
At 10:18 AM 4/22/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: One problem with the setuptools implementation is that several packages sharing the same namespace have files in common, If that were actually true (it isn't), then it would be considered a bug in setuptools. When you build a package for