Darren Dale wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2008 7:01:14 pm Jeff Whitaker wrote: > >> Andrew Straw wrote: >> >>> As the author of the only other known MPL toolkit (at least in the MPL >>> tree), I'm happy with the idea of using a namespace package for >>> mpl_toolkits. I understand your proposal to mean that each toolkit would >>> have a directory structure: >>> >>> setup.py >>> lib/ >>> mpl_toolkits/ >>> __init__.py (empty) >>> basemap/ >>> __init__.py >>> other_files.py >>> >>> This is OK with me, but I question is whether it's necessary to have the >>> "lib" directory -- it seems entirely redundant. I'm fine with either >>> way, though. >>> >>> -Andrew >>> >> Andrew: Yes, that's it, except that all the __init__.py files must be >> empty, not just the first one. >> > > Just to clarify, all __init__.pys must be empty? I have no experience with > setuptools, but the way I read the documentation, it sounded like only the > __init__.py in the namespace package needed to be empty, like Andrew showed. > > Hopefully not muddying the waters, > Darren > Darren: I was assuming they both needed to be namespace packages (mpl_tookits and mpl_toolkits.basemap). I just went back and re-read it, and now I'm just not sure ...
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