On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:50:04AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > Ignoring the bugs in the mysql extension, I would like to understand > why egg files are an appropriate delivery mechanism for us as > distributor/OS vendor. Eggs seem to be more opaque than unpacked > module deliveries, and appear to have performance overhead (from the > unpacking, although there may be caching options I've not found). > > If there isn't a strong argument, I think we should insist on > unpacked delivery.
So far as I can tell -- from the egg files that are already being installed -- we *are* installing unpacked, but we're also installing various egg-related turds, which seem to be different in different cases (some deliver a .egg-info file and some deliver a .egg-info directory which is populated with maybe a half-dozen files). Danek
