Re: [Pyobjc-dev] top level namespaces

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 15:31 US/Eastern, Just van Rossum wrote:
> Nah, there's StringIO, BaseHTTPServer.py, Carbon, and these are just 
> the
> first three that popped up in my head...

Oh, duh!  Don't know where my brain was on that one!

>>> 3. Its not hard to package the modules in a subdirectory, using
>>> .pth files in /usr/lib/site-packages and with minimal extra code in
>>> bin-python-main.m. Hmm, and some extra code in bundlebuilder.py
>>> too, I think. OTOH, extra code somewhere is still extra code, and
>>> putting everything in a package doesn't require any extra code.
>>
>> I'm not sure what this means....
>
> This means there will be a folder inside site-packages containing a
> folder (eg.) PyObjC which contains all our stuff. Right next to it in
> site-packages there's a file called PyObjC.pth which contains one line
> "PyObjC", which is the relative path to our dir which will then be 
> added
> to sys.path by site.py. So this solves the cluttering of the
> site-packages dir.

Ahhh... OK.   That makes sense.   It also doesn't break anything.  Way 
superior.  Didn't even know it existed.

b.bum