Little tool - but very big size... :-(

[Gerhard Häring]

Durumdara wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have a problem.
> I have a little tool that can get data about filesystems and wrote it in
> python.
> 
> The main user asked me a GUI for this software.
> 
> This user is needed a portable program, so I create this kind of the
> software with Py2Exe.
> 
> But it have very big size: 11 MB... :-( [...]

You can create an installer using NSIS and choose LZMA compression. 
That's the slickest way I know to distribute your application.

If that's too much trouble, you can also distribute your application as 
a self-extracting 7ZIP-Archive using LZMA compression 
(http://www.7-zip.org/).

Quick size test here with a small wxPython helper app of mine:

py2exe dist directory size: 12.469.572 Bytes

7ZIP self-extracting archive (LZMA, default settings): 2,80 MB 
(2.942.543 Bytes)

A NSIS installer will not add much overhead (a few hundred KB).

HTH,

-- Gerhard