Re: [octvae forge] shadowing between packages

[Andrew Janke]

On 3/17/19 7:02 AM, JuanPi wrote:
> Hi Andrew
> Thanks. I sounds to me that the namespace solution is the best, since we 
> do not have control over package A development.
> I would then add a load script to package B to create the namesspace. 
> Honestly i have not yet work with packages namespaces so i am not sure 
> if this can be achieved at runtime.
> Another solution is to add the namespace in the mirror of package A. 
> Maybe that's better

Doing namespaces dynamically is hard, because it means that you have to:
a) rearrange the source files on disk to put them in a namespace before 
you add them to the path, and
b) transform the code itself so function references now refer to the 
namespaced function, instead of the global non-namespaced one.

Usually, namespaces are just done statically.

Can you point me at a concrete example of Package A and Package B here, 
so I can better understand your requirements, and maybe make better 
suggestions?

Cheers,
Andrew