[Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

[Paul Moore]

On 15 February 2015 at 16:21, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
> It might be nice to consider those use-cases in pyzapp as well, especially
> once the glibc feature is released. It requires some fairly big changes to
> zipimport (I ended up rewriting the whole thing) but we can easily
> opensource the code, if there's any interest at all. I'd be happy to discuss
> this in more detail at PyCon, at which time we should be deploying code
> internally using all of this.

Those cases sound more like things to consider for Python's
"executable zip" support. The zipapp module is purely concerned with
taking a bunch of stuff and making a zipfile-with-shebang
"python-executable zipfile" out of it. Of course if Python needed
certain files to be aligned a particular way in order to execute the
zipfile, that *would* be something that zipapp should take into
account. But I'd say let's wait till zipfile execution needs the
feature before adding it to zipapp.

Paul