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.)
Regards,
Zooko
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