pythonarcade
Light weight version of arcade.
Enhancement request:
A version of Arcade that does not contain all of the examples, and resources.
What would it help with?
making packaged versions of Arcade games smaller. Since it would remove all of the unnecessary examples and Kenny assets.
Since we are talking about the packaged version or arcade it's fairly easy to modify the pyinstalled hook : https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/blob/development/arcade/__pyinstaller/hook-arcade.py
Maybe we can add some enviroment variables for excluding examples and redundant resources + experimental? We can easily just split resources into the core and extra ones, but we have to make sure the resource path is the same as before so we don't break code.
I suggest keeping :resources: and create a new handle for all the core things like shaders and default fonts.
This is much more possible to do now, the assets/system resources are split up now, we should be able to easily add an environment variable to the pyinstaller hook to exclude the built-in assets now that they're splitup.
This is finished now. The pyinstaller hook by default excludes the built-in example resources and only includes the system resources folder. There isn't an in-built way to make pyinstaller include the built-in resources, however that can easily be added on the end user side and is likely not a big deal so I think it's fine the way it is. If we notice problems we can maybe add an environment variable or something to enable including them, however I think not including them by default is a sane default.
Most people I've encountered distributing packaged builds of their games are not using example assets from us.