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I Love Python and would use it more if it were easier to build stand-alone, compiled native apps from it (I used Python many years before the phrase 'Web 2.0' came about). I use pyinstaller right now and have use py2exe in the past to build native, end-client distributal code, but now I just use C++ for those cases.

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Unfortunately I don't know how much this will help. I think LLVM will add like 7mb to any python exe distribution.

7mb doesn't seem too bad in this age of fast net and big hard drives as compared to the inconvenience of what other method you get Python running on an end-user system.

I used to agree, but then I went to central eastern Africa (Burundi). 7mb takes a long time to download on a 3kbps connection. I'm not so sure now. There's a long tail of people with slow connections & small hard drives. I guess this issue is whether or not you care about supporting them.

A huge percentage of the Python code out there is server-side stuff. So, if you only have a 3kbit connection at your disposal, you're probably not going to have much luck deploying your application either.

For server-side, no.

And it seemed like the discussion was about distrubuting client-side apps written in Python using Unladen Swallow.

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