Hi all, I spotted earlier today that there are a significant number of Cygwin packages that seem to include __pycache__ directories in the package. I'd have expected this to be an error, and any Python code to be distributed without the __pycache__ directories so that the local Python installation can compile the bytecode locally. Certainly distributing these files seems like it would unnecessarily inflate the size of the affected packages.
Assuming this is actually an issue, and these directories aren't desirable for some reason that hasn't occurred to me, I suspect fixing this is most easily achieved by an update to cygport to automatically exclude those directories. Once that's done, the next time the affected packages are rebuilt they'd automatically miss these extraneous files. There's a list of affected packages at <https://www.cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=__pycache__&arch=x86_64>. Adam -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
