diet Python

[super_banane at yahoo.com]

'freeze.py' is a nice utility for deployment, but it does
not get far enough, in the sense that it produces the C
files and the Makefile, but for the local machine only.
That is Ok if you want to ship binaries, but for source
code shipping that is not really it.

Would it be possible to create a 'diet' Python
distribution, without doc, Tools, etc. that would contain
only what is needed to compile the interpreter with maybe
a limited subset of modules? In that case, it would reduce
Python to a small tar file which you could include in
your own source code for distribution. This way, people
will not even notice that they installed Python.

Also good if Python changes in some incompatible ways
from one version to another, and you do not want to support
the changes.

All in all, what would be nice is a 'freeze' version that
supports source code deployment on multiple platforms as
well. Is there anything going in this direction? Any idea?

--
Nicolas


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