[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app -> .app size is too big

Chris Weisiger cweisiger at msg.ucsf.edu
Wed Feb 16 16:59:35 CET 2011


Sounds about right. Remember that your app also includes the Python
interpreter and a whole bunch of support libraries. Even simple apps are not
very small. One of the prices you pay for using Python.

-Chris

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Prashant Saxena <animator333 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Leopard 10.5.5 Intel
> XCode 3.1.4
> Python 2.6.6 universal
> wxpython 2.8.11.0 universal
>
> After installing py2app using "python setup.py install", I created an .app
> of
> default wxpython's example name "supperdoodle".
> The resulting superdoodle.app is around 48.5 MB. Am I missing something in
> setup.py or this is normal size for wxpython based applications?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Prashant
>
>
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