On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 16:37, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote: > I understand the need to ship without source -- but why does that > require supporting .pyc (or .pyo) -only? > > Couldn't vendors just replace the real .py files with empty files? > Because if someone screws up the mod time on the source files the .pyc files will get recreated silently. -Brett > > Then no one would need the extra stat call, and no one would be bitten > by orphaned .pyc files after a rename. > > [Yes, zips could still allow unmatched names; yes, it would be helpful > if a tool were available to sync the last-modification time; yes a > deprecation release should still be needed.] > > -jJ > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20100303/38201107/attachment-0001.html>
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