Namespace package with both tarball and egg in Python

Question

I've followed this tutorial to make a package with namespace. Then I use pip install xxx.tar.gz to install and everything works like expect.

The problem is that my environment has already a lots of packages with the same namespace and installed with easy_install and eggs, and python can not find the old packages anymore. I understand that if I create tar.gz instead of eggs for all the olds pacakges, it would work fine but this is a lots of time to spend.

How can I make the new and old packages work together with two different installation methods ?

Thanks

Williamson

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem (I think). It appears that this is a well known problem. The solution given to me was to just use pip for everything. I was specifically using python setup.py install alongside pip install w/e and it wasn't working, I'm guessing yours is roughly the same problem.

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