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Disable nspkg.pth magic when PEP-420 is available #805

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jaraco opened this issue Oct 1, 2016 · 2 comments
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Disable nspkg.pth magic when PEP-420 is available #805

jaraco opened this issue Oct 1, 2016 · 2 comments

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jaraco commented Oct 1, 2016

In pypa/pip#1924, we find that setuptools is generating the -nspkg.pth files that are bootstrapping the namespace packages, but these files are unnecessary when PEP-420 is present (Python 3.3+) and in fact interfere with pure PEP-420 namespace packages.

It seems the solution may be simple - bypass this behavior when PEP-420 is detected.

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jaraco commented Oct 1, 2016

Turns out the implementation is pretty straightforward. In the 'issue-805' branch, I've committed probably the minimal changes to support this functionality. I've tagged and released these changes as 28.1.0b1, a wheel that I've hosted here. I've confirmed the technique works. I'm going to run with this version of setuptools for a while and see if I encounter any issues.

I invite others to try it out as well. Just:

pip install https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/releases/download/v28.1.0b1/setuptools-28.1.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl

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jaraco commented Oct 2, 2016

Merging with v28.1.0, I've cut a new wheel of 28.2.0b1:

pip install https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/releases/download/v28.2.0b1/setuptools-28.2.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl

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