So who's going to check how much long strings in json really cost? On Apr 27, 2013 6:11 PM, "PJ Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do we really have to optimize the metadata for runtime parsing, or can > > we have a distlib-specific indexing operation triggered by the > > installer? > > As long as the same thing is done inside a zipped wheel, duplication > of the data is ok by me. (IOW, if it's a *build-time* step, not an > install step.) Technically, though, it probably makes the most sense > to do it when the machine-readable metadata is generated, in order to > support in-place builds ala "setup.py develop" and "setup.py test". >
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