Re: [Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 14:08, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Wouters > wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions (Antoine too), but that's not really the > topic I > > want to discuss here (but if you guys move to Google I'll happily discuss > > all the stuff we

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

2012-03-11 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I do want to support it; that's why we put the facilities you found > there in the first place. Unfortunately nobody actually did the > necessary second step of trying to bundle the stdlib and trying to > make the tests pass. So I think it

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

2012-03-11 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Wouters wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions (Antoine too), but that's not really the topic I > want to discuss here (but if you guys move to Google I'll happily discuss > all the stuff we have to deal with.) The questions is really whether Python > wants to

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

2012-03-11 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 22:16, PJ Eby wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Wouters wrote: > >> (And, yes, I'm zipping up the stdlib for Python 2.7 at Google, to reduce >> the impact on the aforementioned million of machines :) >> > > You might want to consider instead backporting the

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

2012-03-10 Thread PJ Eby
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Wouters wrote: > (And, yes, I'm zipping up the stdlib for Python 2.7 at Google, to reduce > the impact on the aforementioned million of machines :) > You might want to consider instead backporting the importlib caching facility, since it provides some of t

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

2012-03-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:49:24 -0800 Thomas Wouters wrote: > Also, depending on what else you > want to put in the zipfile, you may have to be aware of zipimports limited > implementation of zipfiles that involve various 32k-filecount and > 2Gb-filesize limits. (And in case you're wondering, yes, we