Danek Duvall wrote: > 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).
I know I omitted them from the SUNWpython-mako package I created as they appeared to be only useful to install using easy install. -- Shawn Walker
