[XML-SIG] Expat (Was: Strange install issue)

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Dinu Gherman writes:
 > Jim's compressed expat archive has a 150 KB footprint, PyXML 0.7.1
 > has one of 600 KB (apparently including expat) - so what?

What's "Jim's compressed expat archive" ?

 > As you should well know, one argument of all Python evangelists is
 > the label "batteries included". Quite franky, in times of cheap
 > Gigabyte drives and ADSL, I'd expect most people to care more
 > about wasting their time than about a few more KB...

But we still get a lot of complaints about the size of the Python
installer for Windows, even though there are a lot of mirror sites.
So it's not at all clear that it's so clear cut.


  -Fred

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