[Bf-python] A python25.zip file is needed for the current, CVS

[Willian Padovani Germano]

Hi, a few more comments

Reiterating: bundling some default modules weights almost nothing and 
allows users to run hundreds of useful scripts, including almost all of 
the ones we ship. That's good. For thousands out there this is simply 
enough, why bother them? They may never even download a script and only 
need a few of the bundled ones.

Python modules are not all the same. Some are key, some are useful, many 
we don't care about, some are undesired.

Bundling the whole Python set wouldn't even be enough. We'd have a lot 
of useless ones and still wouldn't cover what more demanding gfx related 
scripts may need (3rd party extensions to read / write image formats, to 
  apply filters on image buffers, etc. etc.). Worse: we don't change 
Python all the time, so users would re-download the same thing for 
Blender 2.40, 2.41, 2.42, 2.42a, etc. Consider the wasted bandwidth for 
download sites, for example.

Theeth suggested a smarter install process, which checks for installed 
version and offers to download Python. Not a bad idea at all, but it's 
an added bonus, we should not rely totally on that. Among the many users 
worldwide there are all kinds of situations where the extra download on 
install wouldn't be possible at the moment or would be cumbersome (this 
is a big world, there are people w/o net or still on dialup conections, 
getting things at less than 3kb/s, that have to pay for local phone 
calls and prefer to download things at weekends or after midnight, to 
mention an example).

Alternatively, we will create the extra package of scripts, where those 
requiring other modules are ok. This package's installer could do the 
check / offer for Python. This would be sensible and imo fit nicely. Or 
in this package we could include a bigger set of default modules and 
maybe even 3rd party extensions, to cover our needs.

BTW, Campbell: struct should already be there, it's not .py, it's 
hardcoded in Win Python, like many other modules. We should investigate 
if it's not feasible to include what Collada 1.4 needs, too, xml would 
be a nice addition.

-- 
Willian