[Python-Dev] Move ensurepip blobs to external place

[Nick Coghlan]

On 24 March 2018 at 18:50, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently the repository contains bundled pip and setuptools (2 MB total)
> which are updated with every release of pip and setuptools. This increases
> the size of the repository by around 2 MB several times per year. There
> were total 37 updates of Lib/ensurepip/_bundled, therefore the repository
> contains up to 70 MB of unused blobs. The size of the repository is 350 MB.
> Currently blobs takes up to 20% of the size of the repository, but this
> percent will likely grow in future, because they where added only 4 years
> ago.
>
> Wouldn't be better to put them into a separate repository like Tcl/Tk and
> other external binaries for Windows, and download only the recent version?
>

Specifically, I believe that would entail adding them to
https://github.com/python/cpython-bin-deps, and then updating the make file
to do a shallow clone of the relevant branch and copy the binaries to a
point where ensurepip expects to find them?

I'm fine with the general idea of moving these out to the bin-deps repo, as
long as cloning the main CPython repo and running "./configure && make &&
./python -m test test_ensurepip" still works. We'd also want to add docs to
the developer guide on how to update them (those docs are missing at the
moment, since the update process is just dropping the new wheel files
directly into the right place)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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