On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > 6-7 meg? Umm. Wow. Just for comparision a core file from the GUI I was > fiddling with was 900k. >
Gtk+Gnome have a whole lot more features and are more general purpose, though. It's a tradeoff of course. You could go low-level within Gtk and save memory, but then it takes longer to write the program, and on a P133/32 or so I doubt users can tell the difference... and apt-get and text mode will always exist for the minimalists among us. Of course most of it is my fault, a more minimal Gnome program is about 2400K shared plus 450K or so of run time system... I think I can strip a couple of megs without much effort tho. > I think wichert wanted the stable sort.. > Okie, one search-and-replace later and we have it. It is maybe a little bit slower but I don't think it will be noticeable. > > My tree arbitrarily stops at depth 2: category->package->dependencies, and > > that's it. I don't know what the right thing to do here is. > > I had 1 more layer, and that was virtual packages. If you a dependency > could be fullfilled by a virtual package then the dep could be expanded to > see the virtual packages. There is a function call to get all the possible > solutions to a dep.. 'AllTargets' you must free the result > Cool, that sounds like a good idea. > The other thing I was doing with my code was generating the tree on the > fly as the user +/-'d items, otherwise you'd have just a huge number of > itmes (like 7000) > Yes I think this is a main problem; I am generating the canvas objects only as needed, but keeping the whole dependency tree around, my tree nodes aren't exactly small anyway. Fixable I hope. > What do you mean? When I'm testing it I do: > I mean, what if I screw up a loop and deinstall all my essential packages... :-) > export APT_CONFIG="`pwd`/myconf.cnf" > > and put > Dir::Cache "/tmp"; > > in myconf.cnf [you have to use pkgInitialize to get this to work] you can > specify alternate status files if you have some.. there is a tests module > in CVS that has about 5 meg of status files that are great for testing > things with. use > Dir::State::Status "/.../status1"; > you need to rm *.bin in the cache dir though > Great! I just needed to know what to set. > Would it be possible to get a binary that will work on a slink system? > Then wichert could fiddle with it. It sounds like compiling it could be an > adventure ;> > Yeah it can be a fun time... Slink already has everything you need that doesn't come in Gnome CVS though - assuming you have the disk space to install it. ;-) It's really just a matter of installing the packages, then typing ./autogen.sh; make; make install in each directory, with the major caveat that everything has to be working in CVS that day. It would be a major undertaking to backport to the packaged version of Gnome... however there is supposed to be a Gnome release soon, and I could try to assemble a binary to sync with it. Havoc
