Python Light Revisted?

Max rabkin at mweb[DOT]co[DOT]za
Sun Aug 21 06:21:11 EDT 2005


Steve M wrote:
> I agree with you in part and disagree in part.
> 
> I don't see the point to making the distribution any smaller. 10MB for
> the installer from python.org, 16MB for ActiveState .exe installer. How
> is 5MB "lightweight" while 10MB isn't? The Windows XP version of Java
> at java.com is 16+ MB, and the .NET framework is, well, I don't know
> how big, but I doubt it's much less than 10MB.
> 

AFAIR, it's closer to 50MB.

--Max



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