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johnsensible
package naming conflict
django_sendfile uses the same package namespace as http://code.google.com/p/pysendfile/. Maybe a better one would be "django_sendfile".
Hi,
looking at the commit history of pysendfile it appears to be younger (first commit 3rd Feb 2011 vs 5th November 2010). I agree though that perhaps django_sendfile would be a better package name, but don't really want to have to break backwards compatibility.
Do you have any suggestions on how I could deal with this? Possibly aliasing "sendfile" if pysendfile is not installed?
TBH I would not expect this to be a big problem - if you use a virtualenv for each project you are unlikely to have both packages installed.
cheers,
John
I'm seeing this just as a Debian package maintainer. Right now I have to patch setup.py to change the package name and therefor the handling of a prospective Debian django_sendfile package would diverge from any upstream documentation or tutorials by third parties.
I gave the detection of a naming conflict a shot but I'd deem my approach rather fragile as it involves tinkering with loaded modules and paths. I can issue a pull-request if you want.
Sorry, not really familiar with Debian package maintenance - would you care to enlighten me a bit further?
Is pysendfile already a Debian package? Are you planning on creating a Debian package of Django sendfile?
I could possibly do a 1.0 release with a new name and update the docs etc to match - would just be friendly to have some way of letting people know of the change if they run old code against the new release...
Yes, pysendfile is already packaged for Debian and thus already occupies the sendfile namespace.
I'd file an Intention-to-package (ITP) bug within Debian stating that I would like to package django-sendfile for its package repository. But this is currently blocked because of the namespace conflict ....
Any news on this? I tried to come up with a namespace transitioning scheme but none of them seem to work without at least providing a sendfile/__init__.py from within the django-sendfile package.