pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

[Neil Benn]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

>Hello,
>
>python24.dll is much bigger than python23.dll. This was discussed already on
>the newsgroup, see the thread starting here:
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-July/229096.html
>
>I don't think I fully understand the reason why additional .pyd modules were
>built into the .dll. OTOH, this does not help anyone, since:
>
>- Normal users don't care about the size of the pythonXX.dll, or the number of
>dependencies, nor if a given module is shipped as .py or .pyd. They just import
>modules of the standard library, ignoring where each module resides. So,
>putting more modules (or less modules) within pythonXX.dll makes absolutely no
>differences for them.
>- Users which freeze applications instead are *worse* served by this, because
>they end up with larger programs. For them, it is better to have the highest
>granularity wrt external modules, so that the resulting freezed application is
>as small as possible.
>
>  
>
<snip>
    1.8Mb - life's too short what gain would you get from removing 1Mb 
from that?  So it can get on a floppy? ;-).  That would be more effort 
than is needed, IMHO, even my handy/mobile phone/cell phone can easily 
cope with 1.8Mb!

Neil

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