the general development using Python

[Joshua Landau]

On 9 July 2013 05:46, CM <cmpython at gmail.com> wrote:
*I said*:
>> There are projects that "bundle" the CPython interpreter with your
>> project, but this makes those files really big.
>
> Maybe 5-20 MB.  That's a lot bigger than a few hundred K, but it's not that important to keep size down, really.

Fair enough. It's not something I'd EMail to a friend, though.

*Chris Angelico said*:
>>  Target the three most popular desktop platforms all at once, no
>> Linux/Windows/Mac OS versioning.
>
> Ehhh... There are differences, in, e.g., wxPython between the three platforms, and you can either do different versions or, more aptly, just fix these differences in your code with conditional statements ("if this is Win, do this, else do that").

I agree with Chris -- it doesn't take much to make a package
(depending on what you're doing) work on both Windows and Linux. It
takes a hell of a lot to make a .exe file work on both.