Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Er, what? How are you generating your standalone executables? What > size is "acceptable"? python24.dll is only 1.8M -- surely on any > non-embedded platform these days 1.8M isn't worth bothering about. > And since you mention wx (all of another 4.8M) I'd guess we're > talking about desktop applications. Who's going to notice if your > executable is a couple of M slimmer?
I've considered making a few lightweight GUI apps in the past but you just can't do it with wxPython. When you have similar products done in Visual C++ weighing in at kilobytes rather than megabytes, it's hard to convince people that it's worth downloading your product. Say I wanted to develop a simple Notepad clone with 1 or 2 extra features: the MS executable is 68Kb, yet to simulate it in wxPython would be over 5MB; nobody would want it. I suppose you can use the msvcrt library directly and cut out wx from the dependencies, but sadly the Python overhead is still a slight deterrent. Not that I see an easy solution to this, of course. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
