[Distutils] Questions about install-prefix in distutils.

2012-05-14 Thread Robert Park
Hello, I found this email from some years ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013284.html I find myself now having the same problems. My lazy solution so far has been to simply install the data files into the same module directory, and then I just do os.path.join(o

Re: [Distutils] conventions or best practice to choose package names?

2012-05-14 Thread martin
Lately, I've gotten the impression that people are rejecting the use of namespace packages altogether. There's an incorrect notion that namespace packages are an invention of setuptools. I think this is unfortunate. Indeed, it's unfortunate. It took me some time to discover that (presumably) th

Re: [Distutils] conventions or best practice to choose package names?

2012-05-14 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Benoît Bryon wrote: ... > Le 13/05/2012 19:25, PJ Eby a écrit : >> >> Regarding the nesting issue and persuading Django developers to use >> namespaces, I would note that there isn't any reason for namespaces to be >> deeply nested in the first place.  By convent