Am 21.03.2012 14:44, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
Still I find it a quite small size for our days. If you were using
Gtk2 directly then your Windows build would have 150MB or something
like that =) About Delphi 7, remember that it is a single-platform
toolkit which just wraps the Windows API for most of what it does and
is from 10 years ago. The LCL has it's own code to load image files in
many formats for example.
A minimal HD these days has 250GB, so it is unlikely that a program
which uses 0,001% of the HD will make any difference.
The iPhone SDK size is 4GB (they make you download XCode again even if
you already have it), now that's big =) Actually big enough to
potentially push me over my internet limit =(
A cheap Android HTC Wildfire phone comes with 2GB of storage, so even
there your app is still aprox. 0,1% of the space =)
I'm in two minds over this. As I said, I want the app to be a useful
Lazarus showcase as well as "scratching an itch". What I've done is
basically a transcription of something that somebody originally wrote
for Delphi which compiles to about 150Kb, which makes the Lazarus
implementation look a bit bloated. On the other hand somebody else has
rewritten it using MSC++ which as well as having a 270Kb binary also
requires the author's own DLLs plus runtimes from MS... which makes
Lazarus look pretty damn good.
But the bottom line is that the target audience is IBM mainframe
hackers, used to handcrafting assembler and punching EBCDIC with their
teeth. I don't want them to say "Binaries bigger than 1Mb? NBG".
Maybe it would be better to show non-GUI executables? Those are normally
much smaller. Also these might be more useful on a mainframe?
Regards,
Sven
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