[Distutils] namespace_packages: include itself ot not include

[Roman Kurakin]

Hi,

   Let suppose that we have package aaa and subpackage bbb and we are going
to write setup.py for bbb using setuptools:

extra = dict(
   namespace_packages=[aaa, aaa.bbb],
   zip_safe = False,
   install_requires = ['setuptools'],
   )

if __name__==__main__:
   setup(name=aaa.bbb,
 version=0.0.1,
 description=Dummy example subpackage,
 author=Mr. Nemo,
 url=http://www.the.way.org/to/hell;,
 author_email=mrn...@the.way.org,
 packages=['aaa.bbb'],
 license='BSD',
 **extra)

   This is the way of namespace_packages usage I against of.  So, the 
questions is
am I right standing that package bbb, subpackage of aaa must list in 
namespace_packages
only namespaces it participate in eq 'aaa', and must not list any 
namespaces it is provides,
in this case 'aaa.bbb'? So correct value namespace_packages=['aaa'] in 
the case above.


Best regards,
   Roman Kurakin


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Re: [Distutils] namespace_packages: include itself ot not include

[P.J. Eby]

At 02:12 PM 2/4/2011 +0300, Roman Kurakin wrote:

Hi,

   Let suppose that we have package aaa and subpackage bbb and we are going
to write setup.py for bbb using setuptools:

extra = dict(
   namespace_packages=[aaa, aaa.bbb],
   zip_safe = False,
   install_requires = ['setuptools'],
   )

if __name__==__main__:
   setup(name=aaa.bbb,
 version=0.0.1,
 description=Dummy example subpackage,
 author=Mr. Nemo,
 url=http://www.the.way.org/to/hell;,
 author_email=mrn...@the.way.org,
 packages=['aaa.bbb'],
 license='BSD',
 **extra)

   This is the way of namespace_packages usage I against of.  So, 
the questions is
am I right standing that package bbb, subpackage of aaa must list in 
namespace_packages
only namespaces it participate in eq 'aaa', and must not list any 
namespaces it is provides,
in this case 'aaa.bbb'? So correct value namespace_packages=['aaa'] 
in the case above.


If 'aaa.bbb' is not itself a namespace package, then 
namespace_packages should only contain 'aaa'.  And unless you will 
have yet another project which is installing something under aaa.bbb, 
then aaa.bbb does not need to be a namespace package.


namespace_packages should only list namespaces in which the current 
project *participates*.  That is, it should list packages that are 
*containers* for the thing(s) this project is providing, that are 
*shared* by other projects.


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