[chirp_devel] Speed up init for slow computers?

[Dan Clemmensen]

My eventual target is a Raspberry Pi Zero W. It is slow. I only need to
support
a very few radio types, so I tried removing all of the driver files for the
other radios.
This fails because ui/mainapp.py imports some of the files, some of which
import others.  The rest of CHIRP is indifferent, but not mainapp.py. My
workaround is to
copy in the required files, which is silly. 17 files are needed. of these
two files (generic_csv.py and repeaterbook.py) are arguably not actually
drivers. and could perhaps be moved up to the chirp.hg/chirp directory. (17
is still a lot better than 125 or so.)

Proposal: recode mainapp.py to operate without these files when they are not
present. If this is acceptable, I can give it a try. I think this is in the
spirit of the
CHIRP architecture.
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