facebook/fbthrift — pull request #29 by jaingaurav (2014-09-17 08:27:25+00:00)
Title: Disable zipping of the egg file to allow loading of frontend.so

Installation of the thrift compiler as a zipped egg would not work on Ubuntu
14.04 as frontend.so was not being loaded. Disabling zip resolves the problem
without requiring users to specify -Z when installing the package.