[Python-Dev] More optimisation ideas (original) (raw)

Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Fri Feb 5 12:37:27 EST 2016

On 2/5/2016 12:27, Emile van Sebille wrote:

On 2/1/2016 9:20 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 02/01/2016 08:40 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

On the other hand, if the distros go the way Nick has (I think) been advocating, and have a separate 'system python for system scripts' that is independent of the one installed for user use, having the system-only python be frozen and sourceless would actually make sense on a couple of levels.

Agreed. Except for that nasty licensing issue requiring source code. Emile Licensing requires, in the GPL at least, that the modified sources be made available, not that they be shipped with the product. Looking at the Python license, and what tools already do, there is zero need to ship the source to stay compliant.

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