[Twisted-Python] RC's of Win32 installers for 2.0.0

Christopher Armstrong radeex at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 19:38:30 EST 2005


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:24:58 -0800, Cory Dodt
<corydodt at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> There's nothing wrong with including the .pyc files per se, except they
> increase the footprint a fair amount.  pyc is cross-platform, cross-machine,
> etc.  The reason I tried including them is because it makes the install go
> faster (no .pyc compile step).  If a significant number of people want a
> smaller installer, I'll take them out.
> 
> Thanks for the report, glad to hear everything's working for you.

They also break tracebacks, because PYCs refer to locations of
associated PY files, which is how the traceback renderers look up
lines of code to display in tracebacks.




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