Wouldn't it require zope.component to be a namespace package? Extras allw you to add extra files (subpackages) withot making the container package a namespace-package, it seems to me.
On 12/3/09, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> At 10:21 AM 12/3/2009 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: >>> >>> Do you have anything particular in mind? What I did was a ``grep >>> "^.*[a-zA-Z]\["`` in the requires.txt of (almost) all the packages in >>> PyPI. >> >> Do note that this won't tell you about end users' use of extras. >> >> The main use case described in the documentation for extras is allowing >> users to install optional support for things. That means you're more >> likely >> to see them in buildout configurations (which won't be found on PyPI), and >> manual installation steps (which aren't recorded anywhere). > > Incidentally, I never got around to implementing extras in pip, and no > one has asked about it so far. (Though I guess pip generally > encourages people handle transitive dependencies explicitly; i.e., if > you want zope.component with zcml, then install zope.component and > zope.component.zcml.) > > > -- > Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | > http://topplabs.org/civichacker > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig