[PyQt] Massive inflation of .qrc files

[Giuseppe Corbelli]

On 01/03/2018 01:19 PM, Phil Thompson 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

Sorry but I think I am missing something. Let's say I'm NOT using 
pyqtdeploy.
I can deploy a wheel with the resource tree and use pkg_resources api.
With pyinstaller I am forced to use resource-only eggs.
Qt resources system + pyrcc is the only transparent solution I can think.

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Giuseppe Corbelli