[Distutils] idea for Distribute: make unzipped eggs be the default

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 17:19:19 CEST 2009


2009/7/28 Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com>:
> Perhaps the Distribute project should consider installing eggs unzipped by
> default.

+1. Zipped packages are apparently only useful on specialized systems
where the filesystem has limitations, maybe it's slow or can't handle
many files, like embedded systems or similar.

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