Re: [pygccxml-development] [pygccxml-commit] SF.net SVN: pygccxml: [434] pyplusplus_dev/contrib/__init__.py

[Allen B. <al...@vr...>]

Matthias Baas wrote:

> al...@us... wrote:
>
>> Revision: 434
>> Author:   allenb
>> Date:     2006-08-22 14:56:24 -0700 (Tue, 22 Aug 2006)
>> ViewCVS:  http://svn.sourceforge.net/pygccxml/?rev=434&view=rev
>>
>> Log Message:
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>> Make contrib look a little like a package to python.
>>
>> This will allow a user to just add the contrib directory to their 
>> python path and then "import contrib.package_name".  This is much 
>> easier to deal with then having to add a bunch of paths.
>
>
> I don't know if this is such a good idea. It won't work with pypp_api 
> and arrayinfo anyway. The latter is no package and the former has its 
> package in pypp_api/pypp_api and not directly in pypp_api because I 
> wanted to be able to add additional files such as the doc generation 
> script, readme, etc. which do not belong right inside the package 
> directory.

Wouldn't you now be able to do import contrib.pypp_api.pypp_api or 
something like that?

>
> I think it's misleading if people think the entire contrib directory 
> is one single package.

I definitely don't want to mislead people.  I just want to make it easy 
to use the contribs. 

Any other ideas on how to make this easier?

-Allen

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> - Matthias -
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