Re: [matplotlib-devel] resurrecting namespace packages

[Darren D. <dar...@co...>]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 7:01:14 pm Jeff Whitaker wrote:
> Andrew Straw wrote:
> > As the author of the only other known MPL toolkit (at least in the MPL
> > tree), I'm happy with the idea of using a namespace package for
> > mpl_toolkits. I understand your proposal to mean that each toolkit would
> > have a directory structure:
> >
> > setup.py
> > lib/
> >      mpl_toolkits/
> >                           __init__.py (empty)
> >                           basemap/
> >                                           __init__.py
> >                                           other_files.py
> >
> > This is OK with me, but I question is whether it's necessary to have the
> > "lib" directory -- it seems entirely redundant. I'm fine with either
> > way, though.
> >
> > -Andrew
>
> Andrew:  Yes, that's it, except that all the __init__.py files must be
> empty, not just the first one.

Just to clarify, all __init__.pys must be empty? I have no experience with 
setuptools, but the way I read the documentation, it sounded like only the 
__init__.py in the namespace package needed to be empty, like Andrew showed.

Hopefully not muddying the waters,
Darren