No way to generate optimized bytecode?

[crabdancing]

I'm now a co-maintainer of the syncplay AUR package. Ideally, we'd have the installation have .pyc files generated and packaged so that they're tracked by pacman -- but currently we do not. I'd like to know what the equivalent is of --optimize=1 for your install toolchain, since you're not using setup.py.

[Et0h]

I do not have any experience with setup.py, so you will probably need to find someone with relevant toolchain experience to make an appropriate PR or comment on how to do it without setup.py.

[albertosottile]

In the last few days, I investigated the possibility of using setuptools with Syncplay (hence writing a setup.py script). Unfortunately, our current project structure does not match the one typically used for python modules or packages, and these differences really stood out in my attempts to adapt setuptools to Syncplay, creating a lot of issues.

At this moment, we would like to keep our current folder structure, so we decided to abandon the idea of using also setuptools for distributing Syncplay. @alxpettit, going back to your question, a way to generate optimized bytecode for all the python files in Syncplay could be to run
python -m compileall . while being in the repository main folder. Please let us know if this command can be included in the workflow used to pack AUR packages. In the meantime, I am closing this issue.