X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 4CADB3858414 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cygwin.com; s=default; t=1638341145; bh=BMkFJfzHpdbDvyvupfdrt9e2bx1AkDgAUGYUbQCfSAo=; h=Date:Subject:To:References:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe:From:Reply-To: From; b=Br1wtexle9gcm+kDdEI42i8DiwU1fyO/jmQQYNok4Oh7pYazq9YcGIRJ9Tnde3X3i 37UgaWZXmDfS6JFCsM18WW2OETaakw4zzZS7K4drz1I2vSGT618lTYSpkzz5yxfiv2 02Mx9V8+x/SC1oDavDSTGTGgkLldzbJMiS1tvrRI= X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 69B0A385842A X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JweUry+xk31Rfknuy7An5WNnkzzpNk7FiK4fO8Lrepw=; b=L2YQ5Tu3HjM3X3Ednspz7TF4GZ2KvhqOlIjldbbFtH93L/lIq7VaT25XmxarEq6Kx0 FRYkJv6aYFlYkuMRUVUF0+a2VmKoyFGrBWQSc/qAxJcoOiT1IIUEyexlDQGAnpIaZZ05 0CAfGVbqZkQ22Ov/Ej39n8UlP9944JTSKhESUZjbRLYS0grgRQnCty2KVbeQ8h7YyePP LoOJC/cf6ntiHXE2CuNpPb4K8kNJkXS9oW/Tg1IRiqmrNqwRcRLoZg2r3IJMO+VesdWQ ThZJhJuKkhy6yn+vrwo8vQfxIY+QHT7W8Z0VeexlmtY6mmeSNEK7ELy1v6bdtsrvcsiz r0jA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530dlsaBqG572+bXvdjwUHAVip5SssYZIRK2l/lA07NCJZ8pFEBf lGm9Qsc67SSyDudPKsn4fBA+qYP3kds= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxUL2S3dwwAnYu1waEVSMluJaCQnGqE80LwgX8FihXgZubA9AmI4B6drRSrqnFEyhvOCDWHGA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:3b83:: with SMTP id n3mr4656461wms.116.1638340994524; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:43:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 07:43:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.2 Subject: Re: Cygwin packages with unnecessary __pycache__ directories Content-Language: it To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin Reply-To: Marco Atzeri Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "Cygwin" On 01.12.2021 02:42, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 10:45, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I spotted earlier today that there are a significant number of Cygwin >> packages that seem to include __pycache__ directories in the package. >> I'd have expected this to be an error, and any Python code to be >> distributed without the __pycache__ directories so that the local >> Python installation can compile the bytecode locally. Certainly >> distributing these files seems like it would unnecessarily inflate the >> size of the affected packages. >> > > When the '__pychache__' folder or the cached files are not present after > installing the package, I believe the user may need to build them in an > elevated shell. In this case I see no reason to not provide them > Doug Marco -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple