Making smaller exe
Pyinstaller's .exe's are too big.
Have a look at where you're wasting space by running ArchiveViewer.py over the resulting executable.
Try with older versions of Python, like 2.3. python.dll grew a lot in 2.4 and 2.5, and maybe you don't need all those new features. Another solution is to compile yourself a stripped down version of python.dll. It's pretty easy (there's a single file where all the builtin modules
are linked: just comment out the ones you don't need). I have been using a stripped down version of python25.dll for a long time, which was much less than a half than the original version and still be very useful for most projects.
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Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
http://www.develer.com
From < https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyinstaller/gDDIOhtdrjA >