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Re: -nspkg.pth and .pth files - should we get rid of them?

From	Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: -nspkg.pth and .pth files - should we get rid of them?
Date	2015-07-20 14:40 +0200
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On 20 July 2015 at 13:04, Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 07:58:13 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 01:12 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>
>> >Is that a serious question?  Why should debian-python, for no good
>> >reason, break things that work just fine?
>>
>> Because it doesn't really work well when you are supporting both Python 2 and
>> Python 3.  For example, if you have the 'foo' namespace with submodules 'bar'
>> and 'baz', you can't write a foo/__init__.py that supports old-style
>> namespaces for Python 2 and PEP 420 style namespaces for Python 3 because in
>> the latter *you can't have an __init__.py at all*.
>>
> That's exactly why Debian shouldn't mess with it.  If upstream is
> python3-only, they can remove __init__.py and go PEP420.  If not, they
> can use old-style namespaces on both python versions, and there's no
> reason for Debian to break that IMO.

Would it be fair to have a goal to only have PEP420 style namespaces
in python3 world?

And if there are upstreams that don't do that now, work with them to
achieve this and/or cpython/setuptools/distutils upstream.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.


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-nspkg.pth and .pth files - should we get rid of them? Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-07-19 21:30 +0200
  Re: -nspkg.pth and .pth files - should we get rid of them? Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk> - 2015-07-20 14:40 +0200
    Re: -nspkg.pth and .pth files - should we get rid of them? Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-07-20 14:40 +0200

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