Question about a new Python port

[Kubilay Kocak]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 6/02/2013 12:07 PM, Mikhail T. wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Attached is a shar for a new port -- of the bencode-module 
> <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bencode/>. Everything is fairly 
> straightforward about it, except:
> 
<snip>
> 2. The new port also drops an egg -- without even the egg-info file
> -- maybe, all such ports should be forced (by bsd.python.mk) to
> properly unzip and install the contents? Instead of unzipping at
> run-time every time? It works either way, I'm sure, but it seems to
> me, the .egg concept was created for the benefit of people, who do
> not use anything like the Ports system.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. Yours,
> 
> -mi

I've tried a few things in the past regarding zipped eggs, overriding
pyeasyinstall_args with a -Z in the Makefile.

I've settled mostly on adding zip_safe=False into setup.py's until
such time as we can figure out a clear way forward regarding python
packaging.

- --
Ta,

Koobs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRFNs7AAoJEODRMIXMJgkAL8oIAIrzpdTfzFrfLMjJr7qZZrsS
sIeu8LFN+YlyrnMVgLrgF7Pqw890WFapHL1XHeFiGF7EI45arbn+KEJq9r2DH+qi
nQrBTAT6rdhuJ5C/XTS1xiT3RJkL3aN4GVawrVrkTWLjstLH1FCN9DT0DDOpXaK6
I6W+9OhPTL9decQA8JMSShzzOb9ny6J+8uq8ZCXywg5BEiJsLxL7jS4uRDG4HWu6
3npI6mD2kNDJgU1ZbLvBiN7qz0GFavXyD6FqhWnM5b+FlxmdvOyvqASdIw6iQBrx
A+8iVpBMru+zSya3ubnZY7nhwfaPGlbw536Ib9bpNf6nGJEhmiYrXhElJEgjgPU=
=wLvV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----