STINNER Victor added the comment: Antoine Pitrou: "That's not really the point. The question is why we should have to maintain this ourselves. It is easy for interested people to maintain their own forks, especially when *removing* stuff."
It's painful to have to maintain downstream patches. Supporting this feature would make Python usable on more platforms. Marc-Andre Lemburg: "it is possible to compress Python down to just a few MBs: (...)" Right, that "a few MBs" can be too big on small devices, and it has a price on runtime performance, at least on the boot duration. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20210> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
