Standalone applications

[D-Man]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:37:57PM +0000, paulus132 at my-deja.com wrote:
| In article <p6qlmrooik8.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
|   Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
| > "Ryujin" <ryu-jin at bigfoot.com> writes:
| >
| > > Any suggestion???
| >
| > I personally prefer freeze. It requires a C compiler, but gives you
| > best control and reliability. Plus it allows to create *truly*
| > stand-alone binaries, i.e. binaries that are not even dependent on
| > shared libraries.
| >
| 
| I also have some good experience with freeze, but the binaries are big
| (1.8M on Sun, 0.5M after strip), even for very simple *.py scripts !!
| 
| Do you have some tips to reduce it ??

Tell the users to install the interpreter on their own.  Then your
package will only consist of your code and be much smaller. ;-)

-D