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

[Shawn Walker]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> 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).

I know I omitted them from the SUNWpython-mako package I created as they 
appeared to be only useful to install using easy install.

-- 
Shawn Walker