Giovanni Bajo wrote: >Hello, > >python24.dll is much bigger than python23.dll. This was discussed already on >the newsgroup, see the thread starting here: >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-July/229096.html > >I don't think I fully understand the reason why additional .pyd modules were >built into the .dll. OTOH, this does not help anyone, since: > >- Normal users don't care about the size of the pythonXX.dll, or the number of >dependencies, nor if a given module is shipped as .py or .pyd. They just import >modules of the standard library, ignoring where each module resides. So, >putting more modules (or less modules) within pythonXX.dll makes absolutely no >differences for them. >- Users which freeze applications instead are *worse* served by this, because >they end up with larger programs. For them, it is better to have the highest >granularity wrt external modules, so that the resulting freezed application is >as small as possible. > > > <snip> 1.8Mb - life's too short what gain would you get from removing 1Mb from that? So it can get on a floppy? ;-). That would be more effort than is needed, IMHO, even my handy/mobile phone/cell phone can easily cope with 1.8Mb!
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