On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:15 am, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I don't think Debian should use the egg structure. It apparently relies > on building a long sys.path (even though through only a single .pth > file);
I'm not sure of how .eggs are implemented, but I'm going to cross-post this info to the python-distutils mailing list. See below for additional comments. > this adds additional costs to all import statements on startup. > It gets worse if these are zipfiles, because then each import statement > will have to look into each zipfile (until the import is resolved). The is the opposite of what I was told by upstream development over on distutils, snippet from Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip> Note also that in many cases, the package will be a single .egg file, (analagous to a Java .jar file) rather than a directory, and files are preferable to directories in most cases as they make Python import processing faster. <snip> ( Rest of the comments debian-python specific) -- Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288