Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
Let me turn this around. What advantage do you see to linking it statically?
The trigger was that it would have simplified the build for me: When converting VC++6 projects to VC.NET, VC.NET forgets to convert the /export: linker options, which means that you had to add them all manually. Mark has fixed this problem differently, by removing the need for /export:. Integrating _sre (and _socket, select, winreg, mmap, perhaps others) into python.dll still simplifies the build process: you don't have to right-click that many subprojects to build them. In addition, it should decrease startup time: Python won't need to locate that many files anymore. It also decreases the total size of the binary distribution slightly. Regards, Martin