Making the standard Windows Python DLL larger is not only a problem of
disk size: it will make all packages produced by PyInstaller or py2exe
larger, and that means lots of wasted bandwidth.

I see that MvL is still -1 on simply splitting CJK codecs out, and vetos
it by asking for a generalization work of insane proportion (a
hard-to-define PEP, an entirely new build system for Windows, etc.).

I understand (and *agree*) that having a general rule would be a much
superior solution, but CJK is already almost 50% of the python.dll, so
it *is* already a special case by any means. And special cases like
these  could be handled with special-case decisions.

Thus, I still strongly disagree with MvL and would like CJK be split out
 of python.dll as soon as possible. I would not really ask this for any
other modules but CJK, and understand that further actions would really
require a PEP and a new build system for Windows.

So, I ask again MvL to soften his position and reconsider the CJK
splitting in all its singularity. Please!

(in case it's not clear, I would prepare a patch to split CJK out anyday
if there were hopes that it gets accepted)