[Image-SIG] General questions about using PIL in a Py2exe project

[Bill Janssen]

python at bdurham.com wrote:

> We're thinking about using PIL (Python Imaging Library) in a
> project. Before we start down this path, I'm wondering if anyone
> can give me a rough estimate how much disk space the PIL package
> adds to a distribution and how difficult is it to distribute PIL
> as part of py2exe project?

I build it on Windows and distribute it as part of a Windows MSI
installer (built using Python's msilib), not via py2exe.  No problems.
It takes about 2MB uncompressed, built with PNG and TIFF and JPEG
support.

Bill