Joe Wreschnig writes: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:12 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I don't know what's actually in (or more importantly not in) > > python2.4-minimal though. > > I'm eyeballing right now. Things that jump out at me: > * No character encoding, translation, or locale handling. > * A little oddly, loss of shutil. > * No sockets. > > The first one seems like it would be a show-stopper to me, unless we > expect programs in the base system to only deal with ASCII. This is a > fairly large addition to package, too. > > The second can easily be fixed; possibly just oversight. It's a small > module and gives Python equivalents of cp -r, rm -r, and mv. > > The third seems like something software in base may want to do; I > mention it specifically because perl-base include socket support.
Colin already mentioned that the socket modules are in -minimal. shutil looks reasonable. encodings and locale handling come with a prize: a size of about 3MB, which would more than double the size of -minimal (2.4 ships with the cjk codecs). Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]