On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately there are some dark corners of setuptools I've > encountered where namespace packages don't work properly during > installation *unless* they were installed in the old-fashioned > setuptools way. I'll have to see if I can dig up what those cases > are, because they should be fixed.
I don't know if this is what you had in mind, but, the main problem I know of with changing setuptools to not install the .pth files, is that if you already have any __init__.py's installed (and possibly, any namespace .pth files to go with them), then the newly-installed package isn't going to work. PEP 420 only takes effect if there are no existing __init__.py files for the namespace. In other words, it's not just a matter of changing how things are installed, it's also a matter of upgrading existing environments with things installed by older installation tools. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
