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Subject: bug#20765: Python .egg files must not be compressed
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:10:14 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> I stumbled upon a similar problem when building other Python packages.
> For =E2=80=98python-patsy=E2=80=99, for example, I found that an egg arch=
ive is produced
> no matter what I put in =E2=80=98setup.cfg=E2=80=99.  As far as I can tel=
l, =E2=80=9Czip_ok=E2=80=9D
> defaults to =E2=80=9C0=E2=80=9D in recent versions of setuptools, so I do=
n=E2=80=99t think the
> fix you used on =E2=80=98python-pillow=E2=80=99 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 =E2=80=98setuptools.setup=E2=80=99 is used egg arc=
hives are
> built, when =E2=80=98distutils.core.setup=E2=80=99 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=E2=80=99.