[Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you (original) (raw)

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Wed Apr 9 21:30:17 CEST 2008

On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

I discovered another annoyance with eggs the other day -- it seems that tracebacks referring to egg-resident files contain the pathname of some temporary directory that existed when the egg was being packaged, rather than the one it actually exists in at run time.

Brian Warner and I discovered that issue yesterday, too. We
determined that if you install the egg (with easy_install or with a
setuptools-powered ./setup.py install) in unzipped form then the
source file names get rewritten so that your stack traces come with
source lines.

If you have a package which requires stack traces to come with source
lines, then you could pass "zip_safe=False" to the call to setup().

I would prefer that zip_safe=False were the default and that either
the producer or the consumer of a package had to specifically choose
zip_safe=True in order to install eggs in zipped form.

I've opened a ticket on my setuptools trac:

http://allmydata.org/trac/setuptools/ticket/4

Regards,

Zooko

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