[gdal-dev] Tkl/Tk files after running script through py2exe

[Christopher Barker]

Rudi von Staden wrote:
> Since I can't guarantee that the users will have 
> Python, I ran the script through py2exe.
> 
> 1) The resulting distribution folder includes Tcl/Tk files and folders. 
> I can only guess that these are used by GDAL in some way - are they 
> required?

I'd be surprised that GDAL would use it at all, but in any case, if you 
aren't using TK at all, you can probably strip take them out -- try it 
out and see!

> 2) The package is also surprisingly large for such a simple function - 
> nearly 30MB. I suppose that's to be expected, but is there a way to 
> bring down the footprint, short of translating to C++?

You can do what you've done, and look for unnecessary stuff to remove, 
but it'll be pretty big no matter how you slice it.

Fortunately, disk space, memory, and to a lessor extent, bandwidth, are 
pretty cheap these days.

-CHB





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