At 10:59 PM 4/14/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
You are missing the point: When breaking up a large package that lives in
site-packages into smaller distribution bundles, you don't need namespace
packages at all, so the PEP doesn't apply.
The way this works is by having a base distribution bundle that includes
the needed __init__.py file and a set of extension bundles the add
other files to the same directory (without including another copy of
__init__.py). The extension bundles include a dependency on the base
package to make sure that it always gets installed first.
If we're going to keep that practice, there's no point to having the
PEP: all three methods (base+extensions, pkgutil, setuptools) all
work just fine as they are, with no changes to importing or the stdlib.
In particular, without the feature of being able to drop that
practice, there would be no reason for setuptools to adopt the
PEP. That's why I'm -1 on your proposal: it's actually inferior to
the methods we already have today.
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