On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:04 PM Rose Ames <r...@happyspork.com> wrote:
> At pycon I talked with a few people about bugs.python.org/issue19699. > The consensus seemed to be that zipimport wants a lot of work, possibly > a rewrite. > > I'll have some time to work on this over the next couple of months, but > I want to be working on the right thing. Could the people who were > involved in that conversation remind me of their concerns with > zipimport? What exactly would the goal of a rewrite be? > I believe the participants consisted of Thomas Wouters, Greg Smith, Eric Snow, Nick Coghlan, and myself. In the end I think the general consensus for long-term maintenance was to write the minimal amount of code required that could read zip files and then write all of the import-related code on top of that. Basically the idea of freezing zipfile seemed messy since it has a ton of dependencies and baggage that simply isn't needed to replace zipimport. I vaguely remember people suggesting writing the minimal zip reading code in C but I can't remember why since we have I/O access in importlib through _io and thus it's really just the pulling apart of the zip file to get at the files to import and thus should be doable in pure Python.
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