[Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 17:49:59 CET 2015

On 15 February 2015 at 16:21, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

It might be nice to consider those use-cases in pyzapp as well, especially once the glibc feature is released. It requires some fairly big changes to zipimport (I ended up rewriting the whole thing) but we can easily opensource the code, if there's any interest at all. I'd be happy to discuss this in more detail at PyCon, at which time we should be deploying code internally using all of this.

Those cases sound more like things to consider for Python's "executable zip" support. The zipapp module is purely concerned with taking a bunch of stuff and making a zipfile-with-shebang "python-executable zipfile" out of it. Of course if Python needed certain files to be aligned a particular way in order to execute the zipfile, that would be something that zipapp should take into account. But I'd say let's wait till zipfile execution needs the feature before adding it to zipapp.

Paul

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