From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Zipped Python .egg-files
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:14:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160925221404.GA11969@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8evof9p.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:12:18PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just packaged a Python package and found was generating a zipped
> > .egg-file - which is not that bad, since this saved space.
> >
> > But: This zip-file does include recent time-stamps.
> >
> > I assume this is wrong, isn't it? Can somebody more skilled than me
> > please implement something like "strip-jar-timestamps"
> > (ant-build-system) for .egg-files?! Thanks. Or should I file a
> > bug-report for this?
>
> There is a related bug for this:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20765
As that bug report points out, the primary problem with compressed eggs
is that any store references in the compressed egg are not detected at
build-time, and are thus subject to garbage collection, which breaks the
packaged software when it happens.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-25 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-25 20:10 Zipped Python .egg-files Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-25 21:12 ` Marius Bakke
2016-09-25 22:14 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-09-26 20:41 ` Change proposal for python-build-system (was: Zipped Python .egg-files) Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-26 9:54 ` Zipped Python .egg-files Hartmut Goebel
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