[Distutils] PEX at Twitter (re: PEX - Twitter's multi-platform executable archive format for Python)

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 1/2/14, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
> > No one is talking about solving this problem overnight.
> > But if we don't want to bother putting the effort in now
> > then the zipimport module might as well get tossed as
> > this is a constant issue that people are not designing APIs
> > to support.
>
> Whoa - nobody said that in-Python APIs of this nature shouldn't
> be improved (as Christian says he's already done with this one).
> I was pointing out that there are also third-party APIs that we
> don't control which people will want to use, meaning that the
> need [for an API] to copy in-zip resources to the file system will
> be around for quite some time.
>

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Obviously read your text in a way you
didn't mean for it to be read. =)
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