[PyQt] Massive inflation of .qrc files

[Giuseppe Corbelli]

On 01/03/2018 10:50 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>>> I've tried putting "splash.hide()" as late in the execution order as possible, but it's still fast. I'm not going to cheat and use "sleep()"  :-)
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any insight? I can reduce the quality of the image (since it's shown so briefly), but if the resulting resource file is so large, there's not much point. And 97Kb is hardly a large image.
>>> Using pyrcc is rarely a good idea.
>>
>> What would be your recommended approach to create a resource bundle?
> 
> pyrcc is the only way to create a resource file for Python. The question is, why create a resource file at all?

First thing that comes to mind is easier distribution in multiple 
formats (wheel, frozen...)

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Giuseppe Corbelli