Xavier de Gaye <[email protected]> added the comment:
> Ah, the discussion restarted on the other issue:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue20210#msg287516
Issue 20210 has ended up as a change in the build system eventually and not the
installation process, only a tiny step towards the configuration of a smaller
Python distribution :(
After browsing again the last discussion on "[Python-ideas] size of the
installation of Python on mobile devices" [1], I find all the arguments in
favor of such changes still relevant. I would also add the following new
arguments:
* One frequent argument used against those changes is that "[packagers for
mobile and embedded devices] will have to patch the code base anyway to get
things working in such an environment". But this is not true, see issue 30386
(Add a build infrastructure for Android) that proposes an addition to Python
that does not modify a SINGLE LINE in the existing source code. So it is not
true (or at least not anymore true) that packagers for mobile and embedded
devices need to patch the code base anyway.
* When Python is installed by the termux [2] Android application on an Android
device, the size of the installed standard library is 34M. The termux
installation script does not install the following files [3]:
TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="
bin/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}m bin/idle*
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/idlelib
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/test
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/tkinter
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/turtledemo
"
But it fails to not install also:
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/config-${_MAJOR_VERSION}m
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/ctypes/test
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/distutils/tests
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/sqlite3/test
lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/unittest/test
This is not consistent and should be fixed by a proper (endorsed by Python)
installation process.
[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-July/
[2] https://termux.com/
[3]
https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packages/python/build.sh
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