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Python embedding question.

Thomas Troeger thomas.troeger.ext at siemens.com
Tue Jul 15 06:14:21 EDT 2008 
Kay Schluehr wrote:
> On 15 Jul., 11:51, Thomas Troeger <thomas.troeger.... at siemens.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've really looked at a lot of places but haven't found a suitable
>> solutions yet, so I'm asking here in hope that someone has experience
>> with that topic.
> 
> Which solutions did you rule out?

- Python + Qt, because it's definitely overkill for my plans. I only 
need simple graphics and some sound, no widgets. Basically I'm looking 
for something really lightweight that has methods for drawing graphic 
primitives and renders fonts -- no complicated widgets, windows, 
scrollbars and the like. And, for example, the Qt library is a real 
heavyweight with approx. 10 MB for qt-3.3.8 alone.

- The same holds for cairo/pango, I've written a test program (in C, I 
must say) that has dynamic links to 10 libraries that are all like 250kb 
in size. That's a lot for a small embedded device.

I'd like a solution that's not over 10MB altogether, and the interpreter 
comes at a 60 MB if all modules are included. I can't imagine noone has 
had this problem before... and I'm trying to not invent the wheel again :^)
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