[Gambas-user] WebPage support in Gambas

[Emil Lenngren]

It is only a few megabytes.
Compare that to Java, .NET, ruby, glibc, libstdc++ and so on.

It is not any strange that gambas has a runtime environment that takes up
some space...

You maybe want to have self-unpacking executable files that contains a
minimal runtime?

2012/3/18 John Spikowski <support at ...2529...>

> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 12:58 -0400, Rob Kudla wrote:
> > On 03/18/2012 11:11 AM, John Spikowski wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 15:54 +0100, Emil Lenngren wrote:
> > >> You don't need the development tools to install a desktop application?
> > >
> > > If I created a 'Hello World' Qt dialog and want to send it to a friend
> > > that has a virgin Ubuntu install. What would I need to send him?
> >
> > The .deb package you create in the IDE. Its dependencies will include
> > the Gambas runtime, not the whole IDE. He should just be able to
> > double-click the package (or whatever the equivalent Unity action is...
> > maybe caress it gently? I dunno, I switched to Xubuntu) and have the OS
> > install what's needed.
> >
> > Rob
>
> I have found that it is more difficult to get folks to try your software
> if it means needing admin privileges and installing frameworks not used
> by any other applications. I would guess the best approach would be is
> to use Gtk components for a demo version of your application which would
> minimize the install time of dependencies. How big is the Gambas
> runtime?
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