[PyQt] Massive inflation of .qrc files

[Phil Thompson]

On 3 Jan 2018, at 11:00 am, Giuseppe Corbelli <corbelligiuseppe at mesdan.it> wrote:
> 
> 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...)

I don't think it makes it any easier, see...

http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/pyqtdeploy/pyrcc.html

Phil