Patrick Kirk wrote on Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:47:58 +0000: > I'm writing an application that will distributed by download and want it > to be as small as possible. The target platform is Windows.
Python isn't the right choice if your aim is minimum "executable" size. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, people are perfectly used to downloading multi-megabyte applications and service packs which run into the hundreds of megabytes. > For the GUI toolkit, I am looking at wxPython and tkinter. For a small > application with only 4 working forms, which can be expected to produce > the smaller programs? I have no idea. The number of forms is not relevant, since it's the toolkit that takes up all the space, not the forms. I can tell you that a packaged wxPython app is roughly 4 MB, don't know about Tkinter. wxPython looks better (more native) though. > Has anyone any comments on which produces smaller executables and and if > either is qualitively better than the other. You shouldn't expect much difference in that respect, since they all do pretty much the same thing: pack up the junk and put an exe stub on it, and there's only so much compressing you can do. -- Yours, Andrei ===== Real contact info (decode with rot13): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fcnz-serr! Cyrnfr qb abg hfr va choyvp cbfgf. V ernq gur yvfg, fb gurer'f ab arrq gb PP. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
