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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:59:31 +1000
Subject: Re: the general development using Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:46 PM, CM <cmpython@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There are projects that "bundle" the CPython interpreter with your
>>> project, but this makes those files really big.
>>
>> Maybe 5-20 MB.  That's a lot bigger than a few hundred K, but it's not that important to keep size down, really.
>
> Funny story: at my workplace we solve the distribution problem by
> placing both the Python interpreter and applications on a network
> share.  I have inherited a program that nonetheless is stored on the
> network share as a pyInstaller bundle because it is (perceived to be)
> faster to transfer a single .exe over the network during start-up than
> all the individual files on demand.

It might actually be faster, if the startup cost of a transfer is high
- which it very often can be. But it would likely also be faster to
transfer a single .zip or .tar.gz for the same benefit; or, depending
on requirements, use 'git pull' or scp.

ChrisA