[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app & pillow

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:45, Karsten Wolf <karstenwo at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in an py2app app I replaced the thumbnail mechanism from sips (via os.system) to Pillow. The resulting app size went from 11MB to 50 MB for the inclusion of the complete TCL/TK stuff.
> 
> Is there an easy way to reduce that?
> 
> Both, Python 2.7.6 and Pillow are compiled for intel 32bit on OSX10.6

The quickest way is to explicitly exclude Tkinter using a py2app option.  You can also create a Pillow recipe based on the PIL one (in py2app.recipes.PIL), or update the PIL one when Pillow is imported the same way as PIL.

Ronald

> 
> 
> -karsten
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