[Python-Dev] PEP 382 specification and implementation complete

2011-11-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I had announced this to import-sig already; now python-dev. I have now written an implementation of PEP 382, and fixed some details of the PEP in the process. The implementation is available at http://hg.python.org/features/pep-382-2/ With this PEP, a Python package P can consist of either a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382 specification and implementation complete

2011-11-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I had announced this to import-sig already; now python-dev. I have now written an implementation of PEP 382, and fixed some details of the PEP in the process. The implementation is available at

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382 specification and implementation complete

2011-11-06 Thread PJ Eby
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I think this was based on the assumption that *existing* namespace package approaches would break under the new scheme. Since that is not the case, I suspect those previous objections were overstated (and all packaging

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382 specification and implementation complete

2011-11-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I think this was based on the assumption that *existing* namespace package approaches would break under the new scheme. Since that is not the case, I suspect those previous objections were overstated (and all packaging related code manages to cope well enough with modules where the file name

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382 specification and implementation complete

2011-11-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 06.11.2011 16:38, schrieb PJ Eby: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I think this was based on the assumption that *existing* namespace package approaches would break under the new scheme. Since that is not the