On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions (Antoine too), but that's not really the topic I > want to discuss here (but if you guys move to Google I'll happily discuss > all the stuff we have to deal with.) The questions is really whether Python > wants to actually support zipped stdlibs or not.
I do want to support it; that's why we put the facilities you found there in the first place. Unfortunately nobody actually did the necessary second step of trying to bundle the stdlib and trying to make the tests pass. So I think it would be great if we addressed the issues you found, or at least started prioritizing them. I'm not sure if you're saying that you're hitting the 2 GB limit *with just the stdlib* in a zipfile, or if you're hitting this after you've added a bunch of Google code to it as well. I'm also not sure that it's worth the effort to make *all* the tests in the stdlib pass -- some tests may just be testing filesystem things that make no sense when the stdlib is in a zipfile. I see you frowning already about my lax attitide... So let me add that all non-test code should definitely work, and quite possible the only way to ensure that this is the case is to make all the tests pass. The issue with needing os.py outside the zipfile is a good thing to try to fix. The importlib and zipfile issues don't worry me particularly, but depending on your answer about the 2 GB limit I might get more concerned. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
