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

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn<zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I have been keeping a running tally of people who have trouble with zipped
> eggs and the trouble goes away when they have unzipped eggs instead.  I just
> added the newest entry: someone was trying to build a package with py2exe,
> and configuring their distutils config file to always unzip eggs fixed the
> problem:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33 # zipped eggs cause various
> problems -- perhaps set default setting to unzipped?
>
> Perhaps the Distribute project should consider installing eggs unzipped by
> default.  It would avoid a slew of problems (see that ticket for a catalog
> of problems), would be fully backwards compatible (it is what many people
> already do, per the suggested workaround, and I've never heard a report of a
> problem due to an *unzipped* egg), and I think it might improve performance
> a bit.  (Yes, that's right -- we haven't done a real measurement of
> performance, but the few times that people briefly glanced at performance it
> seemed like zipping the eggs made them slower to load, not faster.)

+1

Jim

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Jim Fulton