RE: [avr-chat] GUI wrapper for avrdude

[Eric Weddington]

> As an example, the msp430 gcc project uses Python for a variety of
> tools, such as their command-line programming tools.  This is
> setup with
> a few shared dlls (such as for the python virtual machine) coming to
> about 2 MB, and an exe file for each tool (maybe around 20k
> each).  They
> have a gui for the programming tool using a small windows-specific
> library called EasyDialogs.  I made some modifications to it
> and made a
> setup file for some of our customers - it's about 2.5 MB.  A wxPython
> project is heavier, since it links in a lot of wxPython (with enough
> effort, some of that can be reduced) - a similar gui project I did is
> around 6 MB.  If there are more than one program using Python in the
> same installation, then most of that space can be shared.

Sounds interesting...
2MB overhead sounds doable, especially if shared with other potential python
tools.

Eric