django is not zip_safe

[grayrest@…]

When installing on my gentoo system setuptools failed to detect that django wasn't zip safe, so it zipped the egg. This causes django-admin's start(project|app) to fail. Adding

zip_safe = False,

To the parameters in setup.py takes care of it.

[Adrian Holovaty]

Thanks! Fixed in [662]. But, surely, a better long-term solution would be to make Django zip-safe. What other parts aren't zip-safe?

[grayrest]

Basically anytime you're using the file system to access data files so the templates and whatnot. I won't duplicate PJE's documentation, but the relevant portion is:
​http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#accessing-data-files-at-runtime

It seems fairly straightforward. That being said, I'd much rather have other issues addressed than zip safety. :]

[tugberk]

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