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Installation conflict with jaraco.itertools #16

Closed 0-wiz-0 closed 4 years ago

0-wiz-0 commented 4 years ago

Both jaraco.itertools and this install ${PYSITELIB}/jaraco/__init__.py - this is a problem for packaging systems which install all packages into the same prefix and want to register a file for one package only. Please solve this conflict. Filed for both projects, see https://github.com/jaraco/jaraco.itertools/issues/9

jaraco commented 4 years ago

Hey Wiz.

This project shares the jaraco namespace with dozens of other packages according to the best practices defined in the packaging user's guide, just like other namespaces like backports (including configparser, zc, and others. It's had this behavior since its inception.

Eventually, the jaraco namespace will switch to using implicit namespace packages, but until then, it must necessarily define this file in all packages that share the namespace.

this is a problem for packaging systems... [that] want to register a file for one package only.

I would raise the issue with those packaging systems or possibly with packaging problems. This project will continue to use whatever the best practices are for grouping packages into a shared namespace.

0-wiz-0 commented 4 years ago

A last comment: I still think that one file should only be installed by one program. So if both jaraco.itertools and jaraco.functools want to have an jaraco/__init__.py, then some jaraco.something should install that and both should depend on it.