Re: Binary naming for Django Related Packages
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Barry Warsaw, 2016-11-28]
> > Is there any risk of having confusing names because of a conflict between a
> > 3rd party Django module and a Django subpackage? e.g. python3-django-foo
> > vs. python3-django.foo.
> >
> > I'm sure it's a non-issue in practice.
>
> this is a huge issue IMHO beacause Django submodules use global
> namespace and thus any unique django submodule name takes not so unique
> Python module name (i.e. they're installed under
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ now, not under
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django)
This is true but it's still a non-issue in practice because that kind of
conflict is usually detected and thus avoided at the pypi level.
And checking for file conflict is part of the job of the packager and we
have QA tools doing that kind of work too.
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