On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:46 PM, CM <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> There are projects that "bundle" the CPython interpreter with your >>> project, but this makes those files really big. >> >> Maybe 5-20 MB. That's a lot bigger than a few hundred K, but it's not that >> important to keep size down, really. > > Funny story: at my workplace we solve the distribution problem by > placing both the Python interpreter and applications on a network > share. I have inherited a program that nonetheless is stored on the > network share as a pyInstaller bundle because it is (perceived to be) > faster to transfer a single .exe over the network during start-up than > all the individual files on demand.
It might actually be faster, if the startup cost of a transfer is high - which it very often can be. But it would likely also be faster to transfer a single .zip or .tar.gz for the same benefit; or, depending on requirements, use 'git pull' or scp. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
