This is useful information and thanks for suggesting the workaround. However this does not address the issue which is not about how I can create an unzipped egg for my use or the use of others. (Or what I did or didn't do to create such an zipped egg).
I am interested in writing tools that work with both zipped an unzipped eggs. To the extent that setuptools/distutils is responsible for setting the co_filename field in the code object what should go inside that field? And how can a programmer reliably and, if possible, uniformly untangle this to get/report a location. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:14 AM, zooko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 2008, at 20:51 PM, Rocky Bernstein wrote: > > I recently cut over to using distutils to distribute open-source software. >> distutils decided to create an zipimporter egg. (Well, I'm sure it did what >> it did for good reason, I just am not all that aware of what I did to cause >> it too choose that.) When I inspect functions in that egg they seem to have >> a path that doesn't really exist. Is there something I did to create this >> improperly or perhaps this just they things are? >> > > This is one of the parts of issue33: > > http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33 > > I just added the following comment to that issue ticket: > > Suggested workaround for people finding this ticket from a search engine > query > such as "distutils zip problem": > > 1. Put the following in your distutils config file: > > {{{ > [easy_install] > zip_ok=False > }}} > > Then all packages that you easy_install will be unzipped. > > 2. When creating a package for others, pass {{{zip_ok=False}}} to > {{{setup()}}}. This is a bit nasty, because that flag is really supposed > to > indicate whether there is something in the package that can't work from > zip, and > if you set that flag then this abrogrates the user's preference when > installing > -- there is no way for them to tell easy_install to install the package > zippedin spite of the {{{zip_ok=False}}} flag. However, I have seen so many > reports > of problems with zip files, and zero reports of problems with unzipped > files, > and zero requests for zipped files, so I'm personally comfortable setting > {{{zip_ok=False}}} just to help the user avoid the problems. >
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