Re: [Matplotlib-users] namespace packages (was: Basemap installation question)

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Jan 7, 2008 2:15 PM, Jeff Whitaker <js...@fa...> wrote:

> I think namespace packages were being used before, but were removed.  I
> don't remember why.

We removed the namespace packages support because we were using it
improperly.  To do it correctly would require moving all of the
functionality out of matplotlib/__init__.py.  Since there is currently
a fair amount of functionality there, adding namespace support would
require moving it and breaking the current API. In addition, there are
some ongoing issues with performance and namespace packages.   Because
of this, we had some ambivalence about namespace packages and decided
to remove the broken support until we could add proper support, if we
decide to go that route.  A good time to do that, if indeed we want
to, would be when we release Michael's transforms branch, so we can
break as much as possible at once.

JDH