cool-RR wrote:

Hello python-dev!

I'm a Python programmer, but this is the first time I'm posting on python-dev, and I am not familiar at all with how the Python implementation works -- so this post may be way off.

I've recently released a Python application, PythonTurtle <http://pythonturtle.com>, which is packaged using py2exe and InnoSetup. Due to the fact that my program needs to give the user a full Python shell, I've made py2exe package the entire Python standard library with my application. What I've noticed when I did that is that Tkinter has /a lot/ of files. This is a bit inconvenient for several reasons, the main one being that the installer for PythonTurtle takes a long time to copy all of those little files. (I think the reason for the slowness is not the weight of the files, but the fact that there are so many of them.) There are also other reasons why it's annoying: Ohloh thinks my project is "Mostly written in Tcl," and git-gui gave me trouble for trying to commit so many files. Do you think it will be a good thing to package all of these Tkinter files into one big file (or several big files)?

Do you mean the .tcl files? Tkinter is a Python wrapper around Tcl - which is a separate project / programming environment that includes the Tk GUI. Python is not in a position to modify or repackage those files. Why do you need to keep the whole Python distribution under version control? Isn't all you need a script to *generate* the py2exe'd output from an *installed* Python? This is the approach I take with Movable Python which does something very similar. All the best, Michael Foord

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cool-RR wrote:

Hello python-dev!

I'm a Python programmer, but this is the first time I'm posting on python-dev, and I am not familiar at all with how the Python implementation works -- so this post may be way off.

I've recently released a Python application, PythonTurtle <http://pythonturtle.com>, which is packaged using py2exe and InnoSetup. Due to the fact that my program needs to give the user a full Python shell, I've made py2exe package the entire Python standard library with my application.

I really think you you just make you app sit on top of a standard Python installation. The current Windows installers work well. Just decide which versions you are willing to support. The usually reasons for bundling, to control the versions of multiple 3rd-party libraries, do not seen to apply.