Python Light Revisted?

[Ramza Brown]

Ramza Brown wrote:
> This is kind of funny, I posted earlier about a small, light python 
> distro.  The thing is, I did it in an hour or so, but amazingly, I got 
> responses from everywhere asking for support on how to do this.  To be 
> honest, I don't  have the time to investigate it more.  My point, there 
> seems to be a lot of interest for a lightweight python app, but no real 
> resources on how to do it?
> 
> The goal, build python(mainly for win32) so that the ENTIRE install is 
> maybe less than 5MBs and includes possibly a GUI library, possibly 
> TwistedMatrix, possibly install from just unzipping an archive like 
> applications such as Eclipse.
> 
> So, my question, has anybody done this similar to what I did?  I can 
> show you how I did it, but it was so quick, I didnt really think about 
> what libraries I included.
> 
> There are mini linuxes out there, I suggest mini pythons.
> 
> Why?  For example, I don't need an XML-RPC library, or zip library, or 
> the other libraries.
> 
> http://newspiritcompany.com/blog/article/167/python-lightweight-at-2mb-for-win32 
> 
> 


Or, maybe this is so easy, it doesnt deserve even mentioning.  I found 
it difficult and I still haven't tested it fully.

-- 
Ramza from Atlanta
http://www.newspiritcompany.com