Buildout supports installing zipped eggs because setuptools does. Most people find zipped eggs a pain and complain that buildout should always unzip.
As part of my work to simplify buildout's implementation, I'm dropping support for setuptools. This isn't because I don't appreciate setuptools. Setuptools made Python packaging really work. Unfortunately, setuptools doesn't support Python 3 and life is too short to try to support both distribute and setuptools. Distribute doesn't support the zip_safe flag, so buildout can't reliably support installing zipped eggs from source distruibution. Given that and that (almost) no one likes zipped eggs anyway, I'm just going to install everything unzipped. Objections entertaining. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://www.dublinstore.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
