Hi, I'm posting this here (instead of the Ogre3D site) in the hope of getting neutral advice as much as possible. I'm looking for the best tool for the job rather than stick with my current solution. I was a happy user of PyOgre (based on SWIG) for a while. It lagged behind Ogre's distributions and wasn't 100% complete, but it was lightweight enough and worked OK in most places. Sadly, that's been deprecated in favor of Python-Ogre, which uses Py++ (based on boost::python and pygccxml). Since you all know the potential for bloated code when you use boost & templates, you won't be surprised to hear that the optimized Linux binary is 55 Mb and the Windows one is almost 20 Mb... The difference being that less of the API is exposed by default in the second case. I don't like the idea of my users downloading that much when the Ogre library is already 5Mb, and other fully featured AAA game binaries are only slightly bigger. Basically, I'm looking for a lightweight binding to an engine with typical features (e.g. skeletal animation, 3D models, basic textures and shaders) in Python, but that seems to be rather hard to find in the end. :-| Do you have any advice? Should I stick with Python-Ogre and just rebind everything I need? Do you agree that boost::python is a dead end in this case and I shouldn't waste my time? Are there any other good engines with a descent asset pipeline that are bound to Python? Thanks!

IrrLicht has a python binding, but IrrLicht is also quite large, weighing nearly 8MB as a static library.