Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.016 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'cpython': 0.05; 'interpreter': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'e.g.,': 0.09; 'statements': 0.09; 'subject:using': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'project,': 0.12; 'windows': 0.15; 'conditional': 0.16; 'enough.': 0.16; 'win,': 0.16; 'wxpython': 0.16; 'fix': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'platforms': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'versions': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'bigger': 0.30; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'linux.': 0.31; 'once,': 0.31; 'subject:development': 0.31; 'though.': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'maybe': 0.34; 'subject:the': 0.34; "i'd": 0.34; 'agree': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'files': 0.38; 'either': 0.39; 'most': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; 'july': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'between': 0.67; 'friend,': 0.71; 'differences,': 0.84; 'differences': 0.93; 'hundred': 0.95; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=3BhUXX7zo5697Bf/XqeVfbkrj8ONFieHqW3qZq0x4Lw=; b=LROdhcNyPoUrJZqECFbXLuBx9ZK/h3+TUwBnEeQZpafit9A3TCK7NVLEFSaHJCnP2K /K1Hk5jFcPxdN18WaNBMQNfH8TT37pVGwifJNihxvYlsnniQfHprG0tlpCGkU8CerQfQ aQ415hIv1hMN4EkFBhqeQcMLCsfwninp5mbHLZ6rDXRSqDgh56/nFV0rOSG/piwYnYaQ lY0f4F8DXTS+vjdU1v4QgjXP3K+cPDvzUzYzSa8q9+Ps+DHpAo/i+Dbb9tynx7bZfDMO 6w2jyu3CoMHSbzZweU9t38/rf1P6ZZIx5YBbNL9ZWxXn2LuFu/bZZvHC9jD9fqwbIcNQ /A2Q== X-Received: by 10.112.61.199 with SMTP id s7mr13571523lbr.53.1373404922384; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:22:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <33fe3c46-9c2e-481a-8aa9-8411e1c32d02@googlegroups.com> References: <51f7f573-e4a6-4349-ae50-21de7780ed8c@googlegroups.com> <33fe3c46-9c2e-481a-8aa9-8411e1c32d02@googlegroups.com> From: Joshua Landau Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 22:21:22 +0100 Subject: Re: the general development using Python To: CM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: python-list X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1373404924 news.xs4all.nl 15977 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:51312 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:50276 On 9 July 2013 05:46, CM wrote: *I said*: >> 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. Fair enough. It's not something I'd EMail to a friend, though. *Chris Angelico said*: >> Target the three most popular desktop platforms all at once, no >> Linux/Windows/Mac OS versioning. > > Ehhh... There are differences, in, e.g., wxPython between the three platforms, and you can either do different versions or, more aptly, just fix these differences in your code with conditional statements ("if this is Win, do this, else do that"). I agree with Chris -- it doesn't take much to make a package (depending on what you're doing) work on both Windows and Linux. It takes a hell of a lot to make a .exe file work on both.