On Feb 27, 11:43 pm, "Bob Ippolito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:46, Chris Dew wrote:
> > > I'm new to Python and TurboGears. I haven't been able to find the
> > > answer to my question by Googling, possibly because "gzip" is
> > > everywhere on the web.
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> > > The context of my question is: deploying a TurboGears application onto
> > > a system with limited (flash) storage. I am aware of the various
> > > compressed filesystems available, but I'm considering other
> > > approaches.
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> > > Is it possible to deploy a TurboGears application with all/some of
> > > it's source .py and .kid files gzipped to save space?
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> > Python itself can import zipped files (zip, not gzip AFAIK). I've not tried
> > zipped kid files. I *think* it just overloads python's import routines, so
> > it might be able to.
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> I'd doubt that the templates would work, but the sources would. It's a
> non-trivial amount of effort though.
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> You're probably prematurely optimizing though. Is it work that much
> effort to save (if you're REALLY lucky) about 1MB?
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> -bob
That's a good point about it being premature optimisation.
If the (application *and* framework's) .py and .kid files are only
1.5Mb, I would save 1Mb. I expect there are more than 1.5Mb of
files.
Even 1Mb is good if you've only got 16Mb. I should have more than
that, but you're fighting bloat all the way with flash.
With the work involved, I may be better off storing much of the
application/framework on some form of compressed (read-only?) loopback
filesystem. I was (perhaps naively) hoping that you could set
USE_GZIP = TRUE in a configuration file.
Thanks for your reply,
Chris.
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