Reduce package size by dropping static lib

Author: dean0x7d

changelog.md

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## v1.7.0 | In development
+## v1.7.0 | 2023-06-22
 
 - Recipe build performance and Conan cache usage have been improved further (on top of the improvements in v1.6.0) by optimizing the way licenses are gathered. The recipe now takes advantage of a new feature in `pip-license` v4.2.0 to gather licenses from an external environment. This way, we don't need to re-install packages just to gather licenses, thus cutting both build time and Conan cache usage in half.
+- Reduced package size for Python >= 3.10 on macOS and Linux by removing the `libpython*.a` static library. This brings these platforms in line with the existing package for Windows. Only shared libraries are included.
 
 ## v1.6.0 | 2023-06-07
 

conanfile.py

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class EmbeddedPython(ConanFile):
     short_paths = True  # some of the pip packages go over the 260 char path limit on Windows
 
     def requirements(self):
-        self.requires(f"embedded_python-core/1.0.0@{self.user}/{self.channel}")
+        self.requires(f"embedded_python-core/1.1.0@{self.user}/{self.channel}")
 
     def configure(self):
         self.options["embedded_python-core"].version = self.options.version

core/conanfile.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
 class EmbeddedPythonCore(ConanFile):
     name = "embedded_python-core"
-    version = "1.0.0"  # of the Conan package, `options.version` is the Python version
+    version = "1.1.0"  # of the Conan package, `options.version` is the Python version
     license = "PSFL"
     description = "The core embedded Python (no extra pip packages)"
     topics = "embedded", "python"
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ def generate(self):
         openssl_path = self.dependencies[openssl_pck].package_folder
         tc.configure_args += [
             "--enable-shared",
+            "--without-static-libpython",
             "--disable-test-modules",
             f"--with-openssl={openssl_path}",
         ]