Todd,

I've left it pretty fat in my builds so far, using ".pyc" files instead
>  of ".pyo", including additional libraries such as the pywin32
>  components, socket, ssl, bz2 etc... not compressing the Python standard
>  library "Python25.zip" (currently 8 MB on Windows) so startup time is
>  faster (I'm not sure if this is that applicable, I have not tested the
>  difference with a compressed version), but was going by MarkH's notes.
> 

If I recall, Mark's approach was to  use the python.dll as created by py2exe
or the python.so on linux. (I only did linux and win32 builds)

I was also thinking of fixing up the build parts not to have to go
>  through the full build process, so if you have workings on this already
>  and want to help out I'd appreciate the help.


Sure..  I based it on the outdated document at
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standalone_PyXPCOM
but kept notes so that I can retrace my steps..  Shall we start a new thread
or take this offline?

-Ed