py2exe and library.zip

Simon Brunning simon.brunning at gmail.com
Wed May 4 06:20:56 EDT 2005


On 5/3/05, Timothy Smith <timothy at open-networks.net> wrote:
> exactly what i just stated, i don't want py2exe to zip up it's
> library's, but to put them in a sub dir.
> the reason for this, is so that when users login and update from svn,
> they only have to download some tiny pyc files, not a great big zip file
> with everything in it ( 99% of which never changes)

The zip file is a generated artifact. I've always found it a good rule
of thumb that you should keep source artifacts in your version control
system, not generated artifacts.

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Cheers,
Simon B,
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http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/



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