Little tool - but very big size... :-(

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11MB is seldom a concern for today's machine.

Durumdara wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have a problem.
> I have a little tool that can get data about filesystems and wrote it in
> python.
>
> The main user asked me a GUI for this software.
>
> This user is needed a portable program, so I create this kind of the
> software with Py2Exe.
>
> But it have very big size: 11 MB... :-(
>
> The dist directory:
> 2006.02.21.  10:09    <DIR>          .
> 2006.02.21.  10:09    <DIR>          ..
> 2005.09.28.  12:41            77 824 bz2.pyd
> 2006.02.21.  10:09                 0 dirlist.txt
> 2006.02.20.  12:51           611 384 library.zip
> 2006.02.15.  16:22            23 558 main.ico
> 2004.12.16.  17:22           348 160 MSVCR71.dll
> 2005.09.28.  12:41         1 867 776 python24.dll
> 2006.01.11.  12:19           102 400 pywintypes24.dll
> 2005.09.28.  12:41           405 504 unicodedata.pyd
> 2005.09.28.  12:41             4 608 w9xpopen.exe
> 2006.01.11.  12:19            73 728 win32api.pyd
> 2006.01.11.  12:20            81 920 win32file.pyd
> 2006.01.11.  12:26           106 496 win32security.pyd
> 2006.01.10.  19:09         4 943 872 wxmsw26uh_vc.dll
> 2006.02.20.  12:51            40 960 wxPyHDDirList.exe
> 2005.09.28.  12:41            69 632 zlib.pyd
> 2006.01.10.  19:13           626 688 _controls_.pyd
> 2006.01.10.  19:12           696 320 _core_.pyd
> 2006.01.10.  19:13           364 544 _gdi_.pyd
> 2006.01.10.  19:13           491 520 _misc_.pyd
> 2006.01.10.  19:13           548 864 _windows_.pyd
>               20 file        11 485 758 byte
>
> I need to have more compressed result. Can I compress dll-s, pyd-s with
> Py2Exe ?
> Can I decrease the total size with something ?
>
> If not, how to I create an self-unpackager and self-starter program that
> use an temporary directory in the disk ? With WinRar ?
> 
> Thanx for help:
> dd