[Pythonmac-SIG] Py2app & wxPython problem...

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:59 AM, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:

>
>
>>> Well...  It is working at this point now....
>>>
>>> After upgrading to 10.4.1.....  But the distribution is huge (!!)
>>> roughly 40 Mb....  I'll take a look into slimming it down in a few
>>> days...
>>>
>>
>> Use PyObjC instead of wxPython and it will get a lot smaller ;)
>>
>
> True...  And I know your teasing... But there are several reasons that
> PyObjC may not be suitable for this task.
>
> 1) I am using PythonCard for the GUI
> 2) I am not up to speed in PyObjC to feel that I can manage
>     to use it in a timely manner.
>
> 3) This is a cross platform (Windows, Mac OS X, and possibly *Nix)
>     application.  PyObjC will only help on the macintosh side...

40mb uncompressed is the price you pay for that.. there isn't much to  
do about it.  It should get considerably smaller compressed, but C++  
has a nasty habit of generating a lot of code, and you're using a lot  
of it via wxWidgets.

-bob