Make IDLE installation optional

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

IDLE is useful at development-time, but a graphical IDE isn't something that needs to be present, for example, in a container image containing production code. IDLE is a standalone app with no dependents elsewhere in the standard library, so it's trivial to strip from the installation directory after running make install - by removing lib/python3.x/idlelib/ and the executable/symlink in bin - but it'd be much more convenient if it were possible to tell configure not to install it in the first place.

This could be implemented with a new option, --without-idle. This would allow IDLE to be installed by default for backwards compatibility, while permitting it not to be installed in situations where it isn't needed.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-117684

Commencez par suivre la gestion de l’option de configure et les règles de make install qui placent IDLE dans lib/python3.x/idlelib/ ainsi que son exécutable ou son lien symbolique dans bin. Vérifiez comment le travail gh-117684 traite l’installation et assurez-vous que la nouvelle option ignore ces fichiers, tandis que l’installation par défaut reste inchangée.