[Python-Dev] Thoughts on stdlib evolvement

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Josiah Carlson wrote:

> Ron Adam wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Having less in the core distribution means smaller complete  
>> applications
>> to install when py2exe is used.  There also needs to be some  
>> assurance
>> that the standard library has as few bugs in it as possible.  The  
>> more
>> that's added to it, the more work and testing to do that is needed.
>>
>
> Almost by definition, applications using py2exe are minimal Python
> installations without external dependencies.

Yeah, py2exe only includes the portion of the standard library that  
you use, anyway... so the size of it is not an issue.

-bob