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Yeah that's beyond humongous, that's just ridiculous. :-) I was imagining it was more like 60MB.



On which platform/hardware is 100MB ridiculous? I was using it on my Raspberry Pi with a 32GB MicroSD card which cost ~10€ for the High Endurance version (officially supported by SanDisk for Linux/Pi) i.e. 100MB is peanuts.

Also the difference between 60MB and 100MB isn't huge, so using the word ridiculous is IMO a bit over-dramatic.


On whatever platform. Requiring a user to download and install a 100MB+ framework just to show a basic GUI is just ridiculous. Even Sublime is 33 MB and I see that as bloated, and that's including its separate copy of Python itself...


Maybe it's because PyQt is a lot more than just a basic GUI[0].

> PyQt is one of the most popular Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform C++ framework.

And why are you comparing an editor to a GUI framework? Or is there a GUI framework also called Sublime?

[0]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt




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