On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > While I think 60MB for a basic calculator app is taking the piss, this is > 2011 not 1987 and we don't have to support floppy disks any more. 11MB > for a GUI app is nothing to be worried about. That takes, what, 3 minutes > to download even on a 512 kbps link?
There are other reasons for wanting to keep executable size down, though - low-memory VMs and such (of course, "low-memory" still means orders of magnitude more than yesterday's top-end box - the first computer I ever used, my dad bought the super-enormous 20MB hard disk option). But when you're looking at shrinking > ... an 11MB exe down to 10.8MB then it's pretty moot. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
