>  edward baafi wrote:
>  > Hi Todd,
>  >
>  > I checked out the extension site you referenced..  I was wondering
>  about
>  > the "huge" 12mb download..  I've hacked Mark Hammond's XPI generation
>  > script for gecko 1.8 (FF1.5-2) with a resulting XPI around 2mb
>  including
>  > the python .dll or .so..  I also got it to build standalone (separate
>  > from the rest of the beast) so build time was quite quick..
>  >
>  > Have you looked at Mark's approach?  Overall I agree that a
>  Xulrunner/FF
>  > extension is the way to move this stuff forward..
>  >
>  
>  Hi Edward,
>  
>  Yes, I have taken a good look at Mark's work and notes.
>  
>  The size likely can be trimmed down a lot, I have not been overly
>  concerned with the size for the moment.
>  
>  I've left it pretty fat in my builds so far, using ".pyc" files instead
>  of ".pyo", including additional libraries such as the pywin32
>  components, socket, ssl, bz2 etc... not compressing the Python standard
>  library "Python25.zip" (currently 8 MB on Windows) so startup time is
>  faster (I'm not sure if this is that applicable, I have not tested the
>  difference with a compressed version), but was going by MarkH's notes.
>  
>  I was also thinking of fixing up the build parts not to have to go
>  through the full build process, so if you have workings on this already
>  and want to help out I'd appreciate the help.

I don't quite understand *why* you created your own.  This community would
be best served by people rallying behind a "single way to do it", rather
than fragmenting into every man-and-his-dog having their own unsupported way
of doing things?  I've no objection to your scheme become that one way, but
I've never heard what you are trying to solve that mine doesn't - in fact,
I've never heard anything about it at all.

Mark

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