[issue44097] add configure option to control the groups of .pyc files to install

2021-05-10 Thread Christian Heimes
Christian Heimes added the comment: Please hold off with PR until we have agreed if we want this feature request makes sense at all. Linux distributions typically provide all pyc variants. There are also better ways to shrink code size, e.g. deduplication or compression. -- nosy: +c

[issue44097] add configure option to control the groups of .pyc files to install

2021-05-10 Thread Peixing Xin
Peixing Xin added the comment: For the configure option name used in PR# 23930, change it to "--enable-pyc-groups" is better? What is your advice? -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue44097] add configure option to control the groups of .pyc files to install

2021-05-10 Thread Peixing Xin
Change by Peixing Xin : -- nosy: +gregory.p.smith ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mai

[issue44097] add configure option to control the groups of .pyc files to install

2021-05-10 Thread Peixing Xin
New submission from Peixing Xin : Currently when building and installing Python out of source, unoptimized .pyc files and 2 types of optimized .pyc files(*.opt-1.pyc and *.opt-2.pyc) are all compiled out and installed. So to reduce package size and build and installation time, we should provi