Re: [matplotlib-devel] using setuptools by default

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

Charlie Moad wrote:
>      The way mpl uses the basemap toolkit will not work using
> setuptools.  This is also an issue that twisted runs into.  Since
> matplotlib will be put in one egg folder and basemap will be stuck in
> another, trying to import matplotlib.toolkits.basemap will yield an
> error.  Just something to think about for down the road, but its
> probably not a priority now.

That's why setuptools/eggs have the concept of namespace packages. Both the
matplotlib egg and basemap egg provide the matplotlib.toolkits namespace package.

E.g.:

setup(#...
      namespace_packages=['matplotlib.toolkits'],
)

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