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Author	vstinner
Recipients	Arfrever, doko, eric.araujo, koobs, krasimir_vanev, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, wdv4758h
Date	2017年02月10日.11:32:33
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Message-id	<1486726353.86.0.793827956511.issue20210@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Antoine Pitrou: "That's not really the point. The question is why we should have to maintain this ourselves. It is easy for interested people to maintain their own forks, especially when removing stuff." It's painful to have to maintain downstream patches. Supporting this feature would make Python usable on more platforms. Marc-Andre Lemburg: "it is possible to compress Python down to just a few MBs: (...)" Right, that "a few MBs" can be too big on small devices, and it has a price on runtime performance, at least on the boot duration.

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Antoine Pitrou: "That's not really the point. The question is why we should have to maintain this ourselves. It is easy for interested people to maintain their own forks, especially when *removing* stuff."
It's painful to have to maintain downstream patches. Supporting this feature would make Python usable on more platforms.
Marc-Andre Lemburg: "it is possible to compress Python down to just a few MBs: (...)"
Right, that "a few MBs" can be too big on small devices, and it has a price on runtime performance, at least on the boot duration.

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