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Re: Zipped Python .egg-files
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: Zipped Python .egg-files |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:14:04 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:12:18PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> 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.