[Python-Dev] Tkinter has many files

[Michael Foord]

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

>
> Best Wishes,
> Ram Rachum.
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