Reduce distribution size with install-only-stripped builds

[Coruscant11]

Hello! 👋

Since the 20240726 release of python-build-standalone, a new kind of distributions builds are available.

A new install_only_stripped variant is now included in the release (astral-sh/python-build-standalone#279). These builds are constructed by taking the install_only variant for each platform and stripping any debug symbols. The resulting builds are significantly smaller, especially on Windows and Linux, but omit debugging symbols. The install_only builds continue to preserve such symbols.

=> Smaller binaries with embeded distributions, and smaller downloads 🚀

Some examples:

I will make a related pull-request 🙂

[T-256]

How about using uv as downstream python bootstrapper?

[Coruscant11]

How about using uv as downstream python bootstrapper?

Indeed, I agree to the idea, but currently pyapp also supports regular pip too..
But could be discussed for a future PR I guess

[ofek]

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