On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn<zo...@zooko.com> wrote: > http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33 # zipped eggs cause various > problems -- perhaps set default setting to unzipped?
+1 > 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.) The measurements I know of suggest that having lots of zipped eggs for each package doesn't provide any benefit whatsoever and is usually worse than normal unzipped eggs. Only if you combine a whole lot of packages and code into one giant manually crafted egg, you sometimes get benefits from it. But that's a specific deployment optimization that should be left to specific situations. Hanno _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig