[Pythonmac-SIG] size of py2app app

[Charles Hartman]

> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:55:54 -0700
> From: Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>
> To: pythonmac-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] size of py2app app
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> Charles Hartman wrote:
>> My app changes just a little here and there between builds, and my
>> setup.py doesn't change at all.  Sometimes the app (using "python
>> setup.py py2app --strip --iconfile MyApp.icns") comes out to about 47
>> MB, and sometimes it comes out to about 95 MB.
>
> Weird.
>
> Are you totally sure you're doing the same thing? same python, for  
> instance?
>
> Can you get both versions so you can compare them?
>
> -Chris
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Certainly the same Python, same wxPython.  No different includes.  I  
couldn't see anything except very small local edits I was making in  
the code that changed between a smaller and a larger build.  I'm  
pretty sure they work the same, too (the small local edits aside),  
though at the moment I can't get anything but a larger build.  For a  
while I thought deleting the previous build from disk was encouraging  
py2app to make the smaller version, but now that doesn't seem to have  
any effect either.