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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