[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure

[Tarek Ziadé]

Yes, I don't think it's relevant to optimize install/uninstall code in Python.

In the whole PEP 376 proposal, the only part that will need care will
be the code
that browses sys.path.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
> <asmodai at in-nomine.org> wrote:
>> Agreed. Within FreeBSD's ports the installed package registration gets a MD5
>> hash per file recorded. Size is less interesting though, since essentially
>> this information is encapsulated within the hash. Remove one byte from the
>> file and your hash is already different. And the case of a collision for
>> this kind of registration is sufficiently small to need the size
>> information.
>
> Size is nice because it's much cheaper to check. I don't know if mass
> uninstalls will be so common that this is actually something we have
> to worry about, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan
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