On May 28, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >Pex would be improved by having native support for importing .so’s from within >a zipfile via zipimport. It would also be improved by having good, built in >support for extraneous resources in the stdlib too.
Completely agree on both points. Having an API for importing .so's from a zip would be really useful. Today that can be implemented as "copy to tempdir" and tomorrow the implementation could optionally dlopen_from_memory() without any client code changing. >Right, it would be great to get it built into Python itself, but I consider >that less important than getting the critical pieces into Python. If those >pieces are there then we can iterate outside of the standard library and try >different approaches to *building* such a file, and eventually take a look at >the landscape and bless one approach (or not, if we don’t want to). Sounds good to me! Cheers, -Barry
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