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I've been using PyOxidizer sind 0.7 for a personal CLI project and I really like it. Apart from being able to ship a single executable, it also speeds up the startup time of my CLI, as it doesn't need to scan loads of Python files during startup.

Really great stuff!

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How big are your binaries?

I packaged with a very simple script with a couple of dependencies with 0.7 and it's ~84 Mb: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/cloudflare-dyndns

Ooof that's a lot. PyInstaller is considerably lower than that (~60 MB for a full desktop application including PyQt, NumPy and a plotting toolkit)

A simple CLI with only a few commands and not many dependencies is 56M here.

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