[Distutils] distribute broken Python 3.3.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/25/12 12:57 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
>> On 6/25/12 1:11 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/289/distribute-broken-with-python-33
>>>
>>> I'm gonna try to work around it in buildout 2 by monkey-patching
>>> distribute.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>> If you write the fix, maybe you can do it against Distribute ? we can
>> release it right after.
> I'm not interested in fixing the scanning of pyc files, because:
>
> 1. buildout2 always unzips, because almost no one wants zipped eggs, and
>
> 2. Because the zip_safe setup flag is ignored by distribute.
>
>       https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/279/zip_safe-ignored-by-easy_install-command
>
> 3. Life is short. :)
>
> I would be willing to fix distribute to not scan if the the
> --always-unzip, -Z option is passed to it.
>
> My monkey-patch simply replaces setuptools.command.bdist_egg.can_scan
> with lambda:False.
>
> My recommendation is is to just stop scanning, and don't zip installed
> eggs unless
> the zip_safe flag is present and true (and the --always-unzip option
> isn't used).  I'd be
> willing to help with this, but I probably couldn't get to it for a
> couple of weeks at the earliest.
> This is, of course, backward-incompatible, although I doubt anyone
> would really care.

That sounds like a good plan to me.

>
> Jim
>
>