python24.dll and encodings ?

[Thomas Heller]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> Bugs wrote:
>> Thanks Martin!  As the python24.dll now contains modules and codecs that
>> weren't linked into the DLL before 2.4 and as we now need a PEP to have
>> them split out again, I assume there was a PEP to have them included for
>> 2.4?  Can you point me to that PEP so I can evaluate writing a new PEP
>> to reverse it?
>
> There was no PEP. The current policy is "the maintainer of the Windows
> port does whatever he considers the best thing". The previous maintainer
> (Tim Peters) said this about the state of affairs in 2003:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038639.html
>
> I offered a policy in:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038636.html
>
> Thomas Heller proposed an explicit list in
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038869.html
>
> When I became maintainer of the Windows port, I made this policy:
> everything should be included in pythonxy.dll, unless it requires
> a library not included with the Python distribution.
>
> I can't find a message where I communicated this policy at that time,
> but I commented on the rationale several times since, e.g. in
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/dd5c8f597a86e743

A PEP discussing the rationales would *really* be great.

Thomas