Ron Adam wrote: > I would put the starting minimum boundary as: > > 1. "The minimum required to start the python interpreter with no > additional required files." > > Currently python 2.4 (on windows) does not yet meet that guideline, so > it seems some modules still need to be added while other modules, (I > haven't checked which), are probably not needed to meet that guideline.
I'm not sure, either, but I *think* python24 won't load any .pyd file on interactive startup. > This could be extended to: > > 2. "The minimum required to run an agreed upon set of simple Python > programs." > > I expect there may be a lot of differing opinions on just what those > minimum Python programs should be. But that is where the PEP process > comes in. As I mentioned earlier, there also should be a negative list: modules that depend on external libraries should not be incorporated into python24.dll. Most notably, this rules out zlib.pyd, _bsddb.pyd, and _ssl.pyd, all of which people may consider to be useful into these simple programs. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
