Decrease the size of the Python distribution. about android-scripting

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Here is a data point.  According to settings/Applications/Manage, the size of 
python
2.6 in AndroidScriptingEnvironment-0.11-alpha.apk is 6.39 MB.  Added to the 316 
kB
size of the base ASE application, the total is then 6.70 MB.  That is really 
big for
an android app, especially on G1 phones that only have a few score MB to start 
with.
The newer devices have significantly more space.  E.g. "settings/sd card & phone
storage" on the Magic shows "available space" of 261 MB for me right now....

Original comment by [email protected] on 24 Aug 2009 at 9:38

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I've reduced the size about as much as possible by moving all the pure-Python 
stdlib 
modules to the SD card. Further size reduction would require removing .so libs 
(which 
is surely still possible, though I'm not sure exactly which are best to 
remove). ASE 
with just Python installed now takes 4.35 MB of main memory.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Sep 2009 at 3:47

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I think the cost to benefit ratio of this issue is too high. Closing.

Original comment by [email protected] on 28 Feb 2010 at 8:31

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