Hi Gregory, I think adding a meta path importer that reads from a standard optimized format could be a great addition.
As you mentioned in your email, this is a big detour from the current start-up performance work, so I think practically the people working on performance are unlikely to take a detour from their detour right now. If you would like to see your suggested feature in Python, I *think* the following might be a reasonable approach: * Email python-dev about your idea (done already! :) * Ask if there are any Python core developers who would be willing to look at the early stages of the code and/or PEP that you might produce in the next couple of steps. Perhaps also ask on one of the packaging mailing lists. If you get others involved as reviewers or contributors from the start, convincing them later that it is a good idea will be much easier. :) * Write the meta path importer in a separate package (it sounds like you've already done a lot of the work and gained a lot of understanding of the issues while writing PyOxidizer!) * Write a PEP. It seems to me that PEPs that come with an implementation and the support of a few existing core developers have a much less painful PEP review process. Thank you for writing PyOxidizer and offering some of your time to help make Python itself better. Yours sincerely, Simon Cross P.S. I am not a core developer, and I haven't even written any PEPs. :) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LMHQ2S2YDJHQNQG3U65GIUPU6IB5QDXY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
