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Python .egg files must not be compressed

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Message #16 received at 20765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: 20765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Python .egg files must not be compressed
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:10:14 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> I stumbled upon a similar problem when building other Python packages.
> For ‘python-patsy’, for example, I found that an egg archive is produced
> no matter what I put in ‘setup.cfg’.  As far as I can tell, “zip_ok”
> defaults to “0” in recent versions of setuptools, so I don’t think the
> fix you used on ‘python-pillow’ would have much effect in general.

OK.

> I could only coerce the build system to install plain files by adding a
> build phase like this:
>
>          (add-after 'unpack 'prevent-generation-of-egg-archive
>           (lambda _
>             (substitute* "setup.py"
>               (("from setuptools import setup")
>                "from distutils.core import setup"))
>             #t))
>
> It turns out that when ‘setuptools.setup’ is used egg archives are
> built, when ‘distutils.core.setup’ is used, however, this does not
> happen.

But are distutils.core and setuptools the same thing?  Replacing one by
the other sounds a bit scary, no?

Still it would be nice to have a generic solution.  Maybe we should
patch setuptools itself to change its defaults?

Ludo’.

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