I see you've noticed wheel was released in an imperfect state. Let's add a Zip-Safe flag to the WHEEL file, values of "true" and "false" same as Root-Is-Purelib.
Daniel On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/30/2014 10:23 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 30 January 2014 15:03, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> >>> wrote: >>>> For those following along at home who have no interest in >>>> supporting zipped Wheels who want to disclaim support for it, >>>> here's how you do zip_safe=False for Wheels: >>>> https://gist.github.com/dstufft/8710270. >>> >>> Note that this will also prevent use in py2exe, cx_Freeze and >>> any similar bundling technologies. Presumably that's what you >>> want, as any issues are identical, but it's worth being clear. >>> >>> Paul >> >> Sure, using a library via zip import when it wasn't designed to be >> used as such is an anti pattern. > > The flag really needs to convey 2 meanings: > - - There are some C extensions here that can't be loaded unless they > live on a real filesystem path. > - - There is some code (maybe in this package, maybe in another package > that uses this one) that uses this package's __file__, and that code > won't work unless __file__ points to a real filesystem path. > > There are any number of possible importers that would fail due to > these 2 cases. I've personally written one that loads modules from a > database. It should respect this flag, too. > > Which is a long way of saying: I think calling it "zip_safe" is a > misnomer. The flag is really conveying "I don't need to be on a > filesystem". > > Whether there should be 2 different flags for the two different > problems (C extension and __file__), I can't say. They do seem to go > hand-in-hand. > > Eric. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS6nNFAAoJENxauZFcKtNxgYgH/RG1OKUDEgg9NSR2XH/9Uuw6 > N+MrbQtPPErcyQS3OWCpat4wHiJgOy+oyJR8E3fbJBJpV72csJZBhC0jghiy1fnO > l1T72084cri7X4LzfApF84N35czaCU1V1f3/ju9cpMqO5DKJMjeHu7RFdvcHq7hv > a5/7/zwxPeOpl/wuQe3YODT0x+IQjQsQsvhj1S2m7zHtPQUYlYSvhuTOkKE1snqD > /t5ryU2+HoywKPlITU6dkHEb6/cN8ZDFnbi5gUWXh2URGic6I52A/mfQwtItr0eN > 1GnySV6Mbbgdwa7UznhXKnIuCLwqmB6D8zOVNBtOPXKMMuQuKL1IRT1aNppuS8Y= > =6tIo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
