At 10:08 PM 4/19/2006 -0500, Michael Urman wrote: >On 4/19/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People blame setuptools when pydoc doesn't work on packages in zip > > files. Rather than refer to some theoretical argument why it's not my > > fault and I shouldn't be the one to fix it, I prefer to fix the problem. > >So rather than extract the zip at install time (something purely >within setuptool's domain), you found modifying pydoc's behavior to be >a more compelling story.
Absolutely! It adds a new and useful feature to Python, while extracting the files doesn't. In the meantime, of course, I've told affected users to use the 'always-unzip' option when installing. > Are you aware that zipimport fails on 64-bit >systems in Python 2.3, or do you plan to patch over that as well? Nope. I implemented a workaround instead. :) For a few months now, setuptools generates uncompressed zipfiles for Python 2.3, since it's only compressed zipfiles that give 64-bit zipimport fits. The setuptools docs still claim you have to use Python 2.4 for 64-bit platforms, but I only left that in because there are still plenty of 2.3 compressed eggs floating around. Do you know of any other Python bugs I should be fixing or working around? :) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
