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Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 26 00:56:26 CET 2010

Barry Warsaw wrote:

We discussed this at Pycon and agreed that we will not support source-less deployments by default. The source file must exist or it will be an ImportError.

This does not mean source-less deployments are not possible though. To support this use case, you'd have to write a custom import hook.

What????

I don't like this idea at all. I object to being forced to jump through an obscure hoop to do something that's been totally straightforward until now.

-- Greg

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