On 2008-09-25, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marin Brkic wrote: >> Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving >> the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving >> .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer >> maintenance, they don't (and cannot) have installed python (except the >> ones that bring their own computer at work, but those are an >> exception). >> >> As far as I know py2exe is the only option which can do such a thing >> (make exe files from scripts). Is there a way to make those exe files >> a little smaller (for a small script they easily go up to 5-10 mb).
> Times have changed, 5-10Mb is REALLY small. Flash drives hold 4000-8000Mb > for less than $20 and standard hard drives are now 500Gb. IMHO you are > concerned about a problem that doesn't actually exist. But what if he wants to distribute his program on a floppy disk? ;) [I think only 1 of my 5 machines has a floppy drive, and the last time I tried to use it, it didn't work. I did have a usb-floppy drive somewhere, but I think somebody borrowed it a couple years ago and never returned it.] -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
