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KevinH · 05-24-2025, 12:00 PM

FWIW, on MacOS the installed footprint of the Sigil.app is 514,158,161 bytes (519.8 MB on disk on Intel x86_64) and 501,588,228 bytes (507.3 MB on disk on Applie Silicon arm64).

Since an AppImage is on a squashed filesystem that needs no installation, its on disk application footprint is only 213MB.

So to each their own, but a fully installed 213 MB disk footprint is actually quite good for an Application that includes its own Qt, its own Python plus tk, lxml, PySide6, etc, and of course the Sigil app itself (including all translations and dictionaries). I would bet installed on Windows it is closer to the MacOS size than the AppImage size.

Update:

In case anyone is interested here is a rough break down of the main components (in K Bytes)

Code:

Sigil.app (in K)
----------------
   495416  Sigil.app

    40704     Sigil itself

   454712     Frameworks

   328144        Qt Frameworks
    87560           Primary Qt frameworks
   240584           QtWebEngineCore

   131612        Python.framework
    17332           python3.13/lib-dynload
    44980           PySide6

So fully decompressed and installed one Qt component (Qt WebEngine) is bigger than the entire Sigil AppImage footprint.

05-24-2025, 12:00 PM	#185
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,558 Karma: 5703586 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	FWIW, on MacOS the installed footprint of the Sigil.app is 514,158,161 bytes (519.8 MB on disk on Intel x86_64) and 501,588,228 bytes (507.3 MB on disk on Applie Silicon arm64). Since an AppImage is on a squashed filesystem that needs no installation, its on disk application footprint is only 213MB. So to each their own, but a fully installed 213 MB disk footprint is actually quite good for an Application that includes its own Qt, its own Python plus tk, lxml, PySide6, etc, and of course the Sigil app itself (including all translations and dictionaries). I would bet installed on Windows it is closer to the MacOS size than the AppImage size. Update: In case anyone is interested here is a rough break down of the main components (in K Bytes) Code: Sigil.app (in K) ---------------- 495416 Sigil.app 40704 Sigil itself 454712 Frameworks 328144 Qt Frameworks 87560 Primary Qt frameworks 240584 QtWebEngineCore 131612 Python.framework 17332 python3.13/lib-dynload 44980 PySide6 So fully decompressed and installed one Qt component (Qt WebEngine) is bigger than the entire Sigil AppImage footprint. Last edited by KevinH; 05-24-2025 at 01:18 PM.