{"id":729,"date":"2011-12-19T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-12-19T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:21:14","slug":"honey-i-shrunk-the-installers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/honey-i-shrunk-the-installers\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey I Shrunk the Installers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SOFA installers for Windows and Mac have shrunk substantially &#8211; from 43MB to 25MB for Windows and from a rather hefty 85MB to 36MB for Mac. They&#8217;ll be quicker to download, and the new installers also avoid possible conflicts with other Python packages on a system. It&#8217;s all self-contained. A final benefit is that the installation process itself has become much simpler, with much fewer steps. For those who are technically minded, it is thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyinstaller.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">pyinstaller<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.python.org\/py2app\/\" target=\"_blank\">py2app<\/a> (with some initial help from <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/gui2exe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gui2exe<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SOFA installers for Windows and Mac have shrunk substantially &#8211; from 43MB to 25MB for Windows and from a rather hefty 85MB to 36MB for Mac. They&#8217;ll be quicker to download, and the new installers also avoid possible conflicts with other Python packages on a system. It&#8217;s all self-contained. A final benefit is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers","category-general","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}