[desktop-discuss] simplejson [LSARC/2008/722 FastTrack timeout 11/26/2008]

[Danek Duvall]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:50:04AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:

>   Ignoring the bugs in the mysql extension, I would like to understand
>   why egg files are an appropriate delivery mechanism for us as
>   distributor/OS vendor.  Eggs seem to be more opaque than unpacked
>   module deliveries, and appear to have performance overhead (from the
>   unpacking, although there may be caching options I've not found).
> 
>   If there isn't a strong argument, I think we should insist on
>   unpacked delivery.

So far as I can tell -- from the egg files that are already being installed
-- we *are* installing unpacked, but we're also installing various
egg-related turds, which seem to be different in different cases (some
deliver a .egg-info file and some deliver a .egg-info directory which is
populated with maybe a half-dozen files).

Danek