On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> writes: > > > I don't understand why a zip file makes this easier (especially the > > "update selectively" part). > > Not a zip file specifically - just a binary stream which organises scripts to > be > installed. If each class in a hierarchy has access to a binary stream, then > subclasses have access to the streams for base classes as well as their own > stream, and can install selectively from base class streams and their own > stream.
Isn't that overengineered? We're talking about a couple of files. It's not even obvious that third-party tools will want to modify them, instead of writing their own (if the venv API is stable, it should be relatively easy). > I'm not saying you couldn't do this with e.g. directory trees; it just seems > neater to have the scripts in a black box once they're deployed, with a zip > file > representing that black box. I don't know why it's neater. After all, we install .py files in their original form, not in a zipfile (even though Python supports the latter). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
