From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:48:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: setup: add doc explaining why we set zip_safe=False
X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.3.0~121
X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/architecture.txt?a=commitdiff_plain;h=189f9cc8fd7cdd01e5e5a75b865b4560cac8468a;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git

setup: add doc explaining why we set zip_safe=False
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diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 03f746b3..b839a100 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 [easy_install]
+# allmydata-tahoe actually does work at least as well as any package
+# works when zipped, but zipping eggs causes various problems
+# (http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33 ), and generally makes it
+# harder for people to get at the source code, and doesn't actually
+# provide any benefits that I am aware of.
 zip_ok=False
 
 # Tahoe depends upon several libraries (foolscap, twisted, pycryptopp,