Hi Hartmut,
> These fail due to sanity-check not being able to import "zope" - which
> is a namespace package. Both use the "src directory layout" (source is
> contained in a sub-directory "src").
As far as I see PEP 420 (implicit namespace packages) is supported by
Python >=3.3 only, so I’m not sure the packages would work even if we
disabled 'sanity-check, do they? Either way, I’m in favor of removing
broken Python 2 packages.
> This could be solved by fetching a list og namespace-packages and
> checking whether a fails import is a namespace-package. Maybe there are
> other solution.
> […]
> nspkgs = set(dist.get_metadata_lines('namespace_packages.txt'))
Depending on undocumented setuptools behavior should imo be avoided and
– for top_level.txt – phased out if possible.
Cheers,
Lars
