Re: Pitfall: mxODBCZopeDA and test runner in 2.9+
"M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.database |
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| Organization | eGenix.com Software GmbH |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > > On 12 Oct 2006, at 17:57, Charlie Clark wrote: > >>> Am 10.10.2006, 23:35 Uhr, schrieb Paul Winkler <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> If you fail to use -k, the zope test runner will delete bytecode for all >>>> your products - including mxODBCZopeDA, which has no .py files to fall >>>> back on. Ouch. I'll investigate further - there might be a bug to file >>>> against zope.testing. >>> >>> For development purposes of this nature you might drop mxODBCZopeDA in >>> your SOFTWARE_HOME rather than INSTANCE_HOME which should protect. > > Since I've come against this myself, I'd really like to know a single > sane reason to ship just pyc files. Don't get me wrong, I like the > product and will recommend it all day long, but shipping just pyc files > is odd. Not only gives it a queasy feeling of "well, I guess they really > don't trust their paying customers", it also legally prevents me from > creating patches to help you guys because that would imply I ran one of > the easily-available code decompilers against those Python modules. Even > regardless of the ease with which pyc files can be reconstituted into > readable Python. > > I just couldn't come up with one good reason. Just shipping the .pyc files has a few advantages: * you can be sure that the customer hasn't modified the product and thus support requests are easier to handle * the customer won't run into issues with the .pyc and .py files getting out of sync (e.g. due to permissions of the .py and .pyc files being different), making upgrades a lot easier for the customer OTOH, if you want to help us make the product better, then we should talk :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 13 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! ::::