"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
