setup: add doc explaining why we set zip_safe=False

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Zooko O'Whielacronx 2009-01-29 11:48:02 -07:00
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[easy_install]
# allmydata-tahoe actually does work at least as well as any package
# works when zipped, but zipping eggs causes various problems
# (http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33 ), and generally makes it
# harder for people to get at the source code, and doesn't actually
# provide any benefits that I am aware of.
zip_ok=False
# Tahoe depends upon several libraries (foolscap, twisted, pycryptopp,