On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > All of your problems seem to center on zipped eggs. These are evil > things anyway, and can be avoided by simply putting zip_safe=False as a > parameter to setuptools (whether it actually comes from setuptools, or > if it comes from the maintained fork, distribute). Buildout event has a > config options to say "I don't care whether the egg thinks it's zip safe > or not, unzip it!" ;-)
They are indeed evil, and what's more evil is the fact that opting out of setuptools' overzealous zip behavior... requires you to switch to using setuptools and buy into its way of doing things. As for paranoia, I have personal experience of people using easy_install to install applications I've written -- which were, like Django, distributed as bog-standard distutils source packages -- and then complaining to me because they ended up with zipped eggs by default and that broke functionality in Django that's not zip-safe. So perhaps it is paranoia, but it's *justified* paranoia: I don't trust setuptools as far as I can throw it, and I can't understand why anyone else does. > The real benefits come in being able to specify what versions of what > other packages your package depends on, whether any of them use > setuptools or distutils to create their packages, and being able to > manage those dependencies with tools like buildout, so you get simple, > easy and sane ways to reproduce whole project or even machine setups... When I need that I use pip with requirements files, and I'm already doing everything in virtualenv :) -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
