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Transition to a namespace package architecture
What is wrong?
py-evm hogs the eth namespace, preventing other packages seeking to utilize it as well (skellet0r/eth-stdlib#1).
How can it be fixed
Rename the eth directory to evm, and place it inside of the eth namespace.
Ex.
├── src
│ └── eth
│ └── evm
│ ├── db
│ └── estimators.py
│ └── ...
│ └── __init__.py
This would be a breaking change, and downstream users, would merely have to change any imports of 'eth' to 'eth.evm', a simple grok. This is fine since py-evm has yet to even reach v1.0.0, and it's breaking changes are expected/condoned.
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-packages/
related: #1849
Hey @skellet0r. I'd be on board with this for sure. I think as soon as we get some of the bigger changes in, we can refactor this structure before the next release.