[pygtk] Windows pygtk pack

Johan Dahlin jdahlin at async.com.br
Sat Nov 4 07:19:08 WST 2006


Marcin Lewandowski skrev:
> Johan Dahlin napisał(a):
>> Bittorrent did it in 4-5M when they used PyGTK, but that's using LZA
>> compression and Py2exe which is quite different from a complete 
>> install of
>> everything.
>
> 4-5M sounds nice. Py2exe is very good solution for me.
>
> Next problem is memory usage, gtk bittorrent uses 25mb of ram when 
> idle. I know that it isn't very large amount of memory in 
> standard>=512mb ram era, but in Poland there are still many old PCs (i 
> don't know how pygtk and gtk itself starts & runs on e.g. 
> 933mhz/256ram/winxp), and it would be even larger because i plan to 
> use gstreamer & pygst... And my app would be only small multimedia 
> player that works in background, so I don't think that big downloads 
> or big ram usage are good thing...
You should probably look into another solution (eg programming language 
and toolkit) if 30-40M is too much.

Johan


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