Distributing Python apps

[David Bolen]

giles_brown at hotmail.com (Giles Brown) writes:

> Other posts in this thread seem to be giving the impression that all
> python applications are doomed to be multi-megabyte distributions.
> A couple of weeks ago I used py2exe to build a small command line
> program (the medusa monitor client as it happens) into a distribution
> of just about 1MB.  This isn't even compressed, you can run it directly
> from a floppy disk.

About the only way to keep things that small is to stick to non-GUI
applications.  So certainly valid, but not necessarily common for an
average end-user application nowadays.

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