On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 at 07:09:23 +0800, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 24.03.2018 03:35, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I assume there is a reason (size on disk? dependencies? update
> > frequency?) why most of distutils shouldn't be in -stdlib, but in the
> > absence of a reference in the changelog, I can only guess at why that is.
>
> distutils is a build tool, and we should not need it in a runtime environment.
> It looks like .version is used too much in a runtime context, but that should
> be
> the only subpackage used in a runtime context. sysconfig should be preferred
> over distutils.sysconfig in python3.
Thanks. So is the motivation behind this change that you want to make
libpython3.x-stdlib have a smaller size on disk / in the archive?
smcv
