[Pythonmac-SIG] how big is fat?

[Charles Hartman]

Absolutely right -- thanks, Bob! That brings it down to 16Mb. By the  
way, Get Info still reports it as a PowerPC app (when built with  
Universal Python and wxPython and the new py2app, on an Intel iMac).  
How come? Should I worry about that?

Might it be a good idea to remove the reference link from  
undefined.org/python to the older py2app? I had forgotten the twists  
& turns, and that's where I went to check that I had the latest py2app.

Charles Hartman



On Jul 15, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Jul 15, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>> I have an app from a year ago that needed one tweak. When I build it
>> on a PowerBook G4 with Python 2.4.1 (Mar 23 2005 build) and wxPython
>> 2.6.3.0, using --strip in the 'python setup.py py2app' command, I get
>> an executable of 16Mb. (For some reason I don't understand, this is
>> already 5Mb bigger than the executable I built a few months ago.)
>>
>> When I build it on an Intel iMac with Python 2.4.3 (Apr 7 2006 buld)
>> and wxPython 2.6.3.2rc1, the app is fifty megabytes.
>>
>> Two really simple questions:
>>
>> 1. Get Info says the executable built on the Intel Mac, with
>> Universal versions of Python and wxPython, is an "Application
>> (PowerPC)" -- why doesn't it say "Application (Universal)"?
>>
>> 2. What's behind the bloat? Is it simply that it is a Universal app,
>> though Get Info doesn't recognize it as that? And is there anything
>> to be done about it?
>
> You must not be using py2app 0.3. I can't help you unless you are  
> using the latest version. There are several known bugs in all other  
> versions of py2app that could cause both of these problems.
>
> See this message for installation instructions.
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-July/017766.html
>
> -bob
>