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



On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:56:55 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:

> [Julien Cristau, 2015-07-20]
> > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 21:28:32 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> > 
> > > Should we patch distutils/setuptools to not generate them? It generates
> > > them even for Python 3.X (which has PEP420 implemented)
> > 
> > Please don't.  Using an pkg_resources-style vs PEP420 namespace should
> > be an upstream decision made individually for each namespace.
> 
> dh_py* tools then

No, since that would break sharing a namespace with parts installed
as a debian package and parts using the normal python tools.

Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau          <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
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