Guido van Rossum wrote: >>>I've seen several places where what you propose isn't enough: when I >>>tried putting everything in a zipfile, I ended up giving up when I >>>realized that there are places that use os.stat() on filenames thus >>>constructed. >>> >>This is to ease development. In development mode, we check if the >>data on disk has changed and reread it if it has. This wouldn't be >>applicable to zip files. >> > > How do we turn this off? In the zconfig file. ;) There isn't a way to turn it off yet. > I think it would be a good exercise to see > if we could load Zope3 from a zip file. (Though I've got to say that > the ~3 seconds startup time on my 2 year old Linux box is pretty > speedy, so I'm not sure we could or need to make it much faster than > that.) I presume zip files would make mac starup a lot faster, but that wouldn't work for development. It would also help startup when reading from CD, or so the theory goes. Having said all of that, I have a hard time getting excited about zip file import myself. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org
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