On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Peter Kümmel <syntheti...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 12.05.2014 23:29, Daniel Bowen wrote: >> >> If anyone has other things to add, please do. > > Maybe it is worth to think about a Qt library which really only > provides essential stuff. What would such a library contain, > when all the "but the GUI needs it" was removed?
I think sort of the opposite happened, Qt5Core got to its size because there are useful features that non-GUI applications might want that were moved there. Like QRegularExpression, you could easily see that being useful in all sorts of server/daemon applications. Stuff that only GUI needs stayed in QtGui and friends. This whole discussion reminds me of this recent article about Linux slimming down the ipv4 stack: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/597529/314ebe6febbc9f59/ Like Qt there's no low-hanging fruit, just a bunch of things that can be stripped out that together would add up to a meaningful decrease. Unlike the Linux networking maintainers, Thiago is open to configure-time methods to slim down QtCore. That seems like the way forward for people who care about such things. Ian _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
