Web Frameworks Excessive Complexity

[Thomas Bach]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:49:52PM -0800, rh wrote:
> 
> wheezy + "myvirtualenv" = 3.3MB
> pyramid = 92MB

$ mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages -p python2.7 pyramid
$ pip install -U distribute
$ pip install pyramid
$ du -h .virtualenvs/pyramid                         
22M	.virtualenvs/pyramid
$ du -s .virtualenvs/pyramid/lib/python2.7/site-packages/* | sort -n | tail -n 5 
728	.virtualenvs/pyramid/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg
1556	.virtualenvs/pyramid/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools
1724	.virtualenvs/pyramid/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zope
2044	.virtualenvs/pyramid/lib/python2.7/site-packages/chameleon
6312	.virtualenvs/pyramid/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyramid

I think 22 MB are OK given the functionality Pyramid has to offer.

Just my 2 cents,
     Thomas.