Include Python3 in the Windows installer

[Yu Jin]

Am Sa., 11. März 2023 um 08:31 Uhr schrieb Yu Jin:

> Am Sa., 11. März 2023 um 07:09 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
>
>> On 3/10/23 17:04, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> > Le 10/03/2023 à 22:21, Yu Jin a écrit :
>> >> all the win* imports from lyxpreview_tools.py fail, but those are in
>> >> a try-except block
>> >
>> > What do we gain when they ar present? It might be important enough to
>> > warrant having those modules.
>>
>>      try:
>>          import pywintypes
>>          import win32con
>>          import win32event
>>          import win32file
>>          import win32pipe
>>          import win32process
>>          import win32security
>>          import winerror
>>      except:
>>          sys.stderr.write("Consider installing the PyWin extension
>> modules " \
>>                           "if you're irritated by windows appearing
>> briefly.\n")
>>
> Just checked, those imports also fail in the Python2 package which I've
> used so far.
>

I have found a way of installing pywin32 into the embeddable package, it is
considered a hack on the web, because the embedded python is not meant to
be enhanced with more packages, but it works. With the pywin32 package
installed using that hack the imports work. But there are 2 things
resulting from the "hack":
1. there is a bit of manual work to do when updating the python, I can
document it though, so not a big deal.
2. The python package gets significantly larger (50MB vs 18MB unzipped) and
also the LyX installer itself when finished (65MB vs. 55MB).
So what would you say? Is pywin32 needed or do I skip it?
-- 
  Eugene
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