From 785f9a32350778d4364579fceb208a3cbd3935ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Athanasius Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:07:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] PLUGINS.md: We don't currently include all of Python stdlib --- PLUGINS.md | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/PLUGINS.md b/PLUGINS.md index cb0920e4..00072e18 100644 --- a/PLUGINS.md +++ b/PLUGINS.md @@ -1014,9 +1014,19 @@ well as the `__pycache__` directory. ## Packaging extra modules EDMarketConnector's Windows installs only package a minimal set of modules. -All of the 'stdlib' of Python is provided, plus any modules the core -application code uses and a small number of additional modules for the -use of plugins. See + +Any modules the core application code uses will naturally be packaged, and +we explicitly include a small number of additional modules for the use of +plugins. + +Whilst we would like to make all of the `stdlib` of Python available it is +not automatically packaged into our releases by py2exe. We hope to address +this in the 5.3 release series. In the meantime, if there's anything +missing that you'd like to use, please ask. Yes, this very much means you +need to test your plugins against a Windows installation of the application +to be sure it will work. + +See [Plugins:Available imports](https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/blob/main/PLUGINS.md#available-imports) for a list.