Alex Martelli wrote: > What framework (if any) is your Visual C++ code using? If it's using > wxWidgets (the framework underlying wxPython) I very much doubt that it > can be a few kilobytes -- unless the wxWidgets DLL is already installed > on the target machines so that it doesn't need to be packaged together > with the application code.
Sure, I meant without wxWidgets. > The easy solution is to compare apples with apples: if, in your > application space, it is crucial to use only DLLs that are already > installed on the target machines, you can do that from Python (with > ctypes, for example) just as you can from C. But even that is sadly not practical, since the Python DLL alone is about 30 times the size of a tiny app like Notepad (for example). > What generally happens in the real world is rather different: > applications get programmed in whatever language and release/version is > handy, and the runtimes are separately offered for download and install > to those users who have not yet installed any previous application using > the same language and release/version. The real world is a big and diverse place, and I assure you that my applications are no less real than your own! :) Sometimes you simply cannot pick a language and version at leisure and expect everybody to install whatever is required. There are some things - casual entertainment products for example, or one-shot system checking tools, etc - where people are reluctant to install anything at all, and will not bother if they see a 6MB download. I wasn't saying this was a problem with Python - though I do expect that .dll could be trimmed down a bit - but it is a bit of a shame that I can't easily distribute something less than 1MB in size using Python. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
