This is useful information and thanks for suggesting the workaround. However this does not address the issue which is not about how I can create an unzipped egg for my use or the use of others. (Or what I did or didn't do to create such an zipped egg). I am interested in writing tools that work with both zipped an unzipped eggs. To the extent that setuptools/distutils is responsible for setting the co_filename field in the code object what should go inside that field? And how can a programmer reliably and, if possible, uniformly untangle this to get/report a location. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:14 AM, zooko <zooko@zooko.com> wrote:
On Dec 22, 2008, at 20:51 PM, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
I recently cut over to using distutils to distribute open-source software.
distutils decided to create an zipimporter egg. (Well, I'm sure it did what it did for good reason, I just am not all that aware of what I did to cause it too choose that.) When I inspect functions in that egg they seem to have a path that doesn't really exist. Is there something I did to create this improperly or perhaps this just they things are?
This is one of the parts of issue33:
http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33
I just added the following comment to that issue ticket:
Suggested workaround for people finding this ticket from a search engine query such as "distutils zip problem":
1. Put the following in your distutils config file:
{{{ [easy_install] zip_ok=False }}}
Then all packages that you easy_install will be unzipped.
2. When creating a package for others, pass {{{zip_ok=False}}} to {{{setup()}}}. This is a bit nasty, because that flag is really supposed to indicate whether there is something in the package that can't work from zip, and if you set that flag then this abrogrates the user's preference when installing -- there is no way for them to tell easy_install to install the package zippedin spite of the {{{zip_ok=False}}} flag. However, I have seen so many reports of problems with zip files, and zero reports of problems with unzipped files, and zero requests for zipped files, so I'm personally comfortable setting {{{zip_ok=False}}} just to help the user avoid the problems.