[New-bugs-announce] [issue32588] Move _findvs into its own extension module

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>:

The _findvs module I added for distutils has added load-time dependencies on the ole32 and oleaut32 DLLs.

To reduce startup time, we should move _findvs into its own .pyd (unless I hear a better suggestion, I like "distutils._findvs.pyd").

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components: Distutils, Windows
messages: 310209
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Move _findvs into its own extension module
type: performance
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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