[Zope-dev] Namespace declaration using pkgutil vs pkg_resources

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Baiju M wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>         Now we have 'setuptools' as a dependency for all packages.
>> (I guess this is to make Buildout happy ?)
> 
> No, it is because setuptools is needed for namespace packages.

The boilerpate Baiju is wondering about replacement shows how to do
non-setuptools "extensible" packages (quasi-namespaces).  Declaring the
dependency on setuptools is a bit silly, because only setuptools knows
about dependencies:  the only reason we declare it everywhere is to
appease zc.buildout.

I would leave the boilerplate alone, on the chance that it makes the
package usable via straight distutils.



Tres.
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