On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
So what is the burden of including a single source file that added the support to load from bytecode-only modules? I am not saying you shouldn't be able to have this functionality, just that I personally don't want to pay for the overhead (both performance-wise and development-wise) by default just because you and some other people want this functionality for some clients.
If such a module was available, we'd use it if that was the way to achieve what we want. We could write something like that on our own, but we'd be more likely to decide to just stick with Python 2 for longer because we're going to prioritize new features over doing "hidden" maintenance work like that. So, we want the ability to ship bytecode-only versions of the software, but the specific mechanism for doing so doesn't matter a lot. Doug