I want to keep multiple python modules in the same repo so it's easier to manage them, and work on them simultaneously.
The modules are packaged namespace packages, so I can't have the roots at the same level, and there are 4 of them, and might be more later.
Here's the structure I have:
repo/
modules/
foo_a/
setup.py
VERSION
foo/
__init__.py
a/
foo_b/
setup.py
VERSION
foo/
__init__.py
b/
The VERSION files are separate and track different versions. And the __init__.py files above are the special type described here.
Currently I automatically build the respective module when the VERSION file in it changes.
What I want is to be able to install the entire package with all namespace packages from the root of the repo. So I can just do pip install .. Either this would install everything as a single package (foo_all) or individually install each module.
The usecase for this, is that most people use all modules and they want something easy to install, but sometimes I just want to be able to install one of the modules.
The key thing is that you can run:
pip install repo
and then these Python commands succeed.
from foo import a
from foo import b
Any ideas on how to do this?
I've seen the setuptools.find_namespace_packages() function, but that looks like it's only Python3, and I'm not entirely sure it's what I need anyway. I can't upgrade to Python3 because it's for a client and it's dependent on a Python2 API, which is incredibly frustrating.
Also seen the package_dir option for setuptools.setup(), but that's for if all the packages are just in a different folder. I can't put all the package in a different folder because the individual files would overlap (setup.py, VERSION, foo/)
