Big files sizes on the ubuntu runner?

[filipopo]

On the Ubuntu runner, the GitHub Actions Python is pretty bloated and as a result, the Linux binaries built by this workflow are 3x larger than when built locally, in my example 16.4 MB on GitHub Actions versus 6.3 MB locally

This isn't Nuitka's fault but to mitigate the issue, this workflow could build in Docker or give an example to setup Python in a different way?

[kayhayen]

I think using GitHub Actions Python is a mistake, instead of use a minimal virtualenv of CPython or even better Anaconda, but we don't have our own examples yet demonstrating and recommending Python flavors yet. Which will be nice to add. We are going to add examples to Nuitka-Website repo, and once we do, ideally later on we cover those via GitHub Actions builds that produce best results.