ports/182332: python packages install packed eggs which makes them unusable for running services

[Kubilay Kocak]

The following reply was made to PR ports/182332; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs.freebsd at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, arcade at b1t.name, python at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/182332: python packages install packed eggs which makes
 them unusable for running services
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:23:04 +1100

 Hi Volodymyr,
 
 While it is a desirable (and planned) long-terms goal to have consistent
 behaviour in the ports tree, there is not *yet* a formal or specific
 documented policy regarding Python module packaging in FreeBSD.
 
 A number of maintainers *do* however, make changes to upstream modules
 by explicitly setting zip_safe=False in setup.py, or overriding the use
 of setuptools with plain-old distutils, resulting in the module being
 installed uncompressed.
 
 For those modules or ports that *dont* currently do this such as
 www/trac, the end-user *can* use the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment
 variable that points to a writable area of the filesystem to address the
 behaviour.
 
 In short, I recommend that this PR be changed, assigning it to the
 maintainer of the www/trac port for follow-up and resolution.