From: Zooko O'Whielacronx 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/maximilian?a=commitdiff_plain;h=189f9cc8fd7cdd01e5e5a75b865b4560cac8468a;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git setup: add doc explaining why we set zip_safe=False --- 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,