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| author | Anderson Bravalheri <andersonbravalheri@gmail.com> | 2023-02-13 20:33:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Anderson Bravalheri <andersonbravalheri@gmail.com> | 2023-02-13 20:33:01 +0000 |
| commit | 925a792d8c7f69500c0169c932df08f73f30f6fe (patch) | |
| tree | a020d8e42fb57388bed847a7fcf8fdfae2e05f3b /docs | |
| parent | 52c605573716db3100543be728addf1bce965802 (diff) | |
| parent | de2361c389304603f0daf70b0ee0647af0b9e981 (diff) | |
| download | python-setuptools-git-925a792d8c7f69500c0169c932df08f73f30f6fe.tar.gz | |
Add a DeprecationWarning to pkg_resources.declare_namespace (#3434)
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/references/keywords.rst b/docs/references/keywords.rst index ade147ad..6173e3c2 100644 --- a/docs/references/keywords.rst +++ b/docs/references/keywords.rst @@ -390,7 +390,10 @@ extensions). ``namespace_packages`` .. warning:: - ``namespace_packages`` is deprecated in favor of native/implicit + The ``namespace_packages`` implementation relies on ``pkg_resources``. + However, ``pkg_resources`` has some undesirable behaviours, and + Setuptools intends to obviate its usage in the future. Therefore, + ``namespace_packages`` was deprecated in favor of native/implicit namespaces (:pep:`420`). Check :doc:`the Python Packaging User Guide <PyPUG:guides/packaging-namespace-packages>` for more information. |