Message9594

$py.class files are not generated for the standard library (Lib/) under release targets, unlike when built under a dev target. Naturally developers like me do not see this issue :)

This was recently raised on jython-dev, http://sourceforge.net/p/jython/mailman/message/33546082/, although there's still more work to do to fix the problems with web start.

Note that this problem manifests itself as cannot import site.py, but that's just a red herring. The standard library should always be importable for Jython, even if it's possible to run it with some smaller subset (possibly even none).

Related issue is #2281, as well as a number of modjy workarounds.

Blocker for RC1