Yeah, I was very surprised as well when I ran the installer. But I guess this is party because there’s probably a lot more glue code on MacOS than on Windows.
> On 13 May 2020, at 10:48, Tom Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, I'm surprised at hearing 1 gig. Even on Windows, the DotNet Framework > is nowhere near that large. > > > Tom Wilson > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > (619)940-6311 > K6ABZ > > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:45 AM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:01 AM Erik van der Tier <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve just installed LaddieAlpha on my Mac. At first this didn’t work, as the > runtime that came with the package was too old for my Mac. > > What package? Mono? LaddieAlpha comes with no runtime. > > However, a quick trip to the Mono website fixed that issue. When installing > the Mono environment I almost fell of my chair. The install takes up over 1GB > of disk space… 1GB! And that to run a 320MB+ diskemulator! Now don’t get me > wrong, I’m very happy that I can now exchange files directly from the Mac > (first I was using DosBox + DeskLink). But still… 1.3GB of space just to > emulate a diskdrive… Even the entire VirtualT Mac version is only 4.4MB. > > That's just its binaries and whatever it is packaged with. It needs more to > run. > > > It truly boggles my mind! This is exactly what for me is the appeal of these > old machines like the M100… you could do quite a bit of work with so little > resources. > > It certainly doesn't take 1.3GB to do TPDD emulation. I guess it depends on > where you draw the line. On most systems .NET or Mono is shared across the > OS. And most of Mono is not used by LaddieAlpha. > > LaddieAlpha is 70K. > > Maybe it's a peculiarity of OSX where the typical model is applications come > packaged with all their dependencies. It's different on Windows and Linux. > > -- John.
