[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

[Matt Aimonetti]

Agreed, especially if you dmg your app when you ship it :)

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Daniel Lopes <danielvlopes at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ops, sorry... small typo == isn't a big issue. Nobody cares for 10mb or
> 30mb today.
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Daniel, can you explain why you think it's a big issue? Maybe we can help
>> with some temporary solutions.
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Lopes <danielvlopes at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Laurent, but I also think the size of apps in Mac dev is a big
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Gary Weaver <gary.weaver at duke.edu>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Laurent,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! That is awesome!
>>>>
>>>> Will this reduce the footprint of HotCocoa apps as well?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> As Matt said, it is possible to trim out your .app bundle to only ship
>>>> what's really needed. If you do not need the standard library and
>>>> extensions, removing them might free some memory. I believe the min. size is
>>>> about 20MB then (I'm not exactly certain though), for both 32-bit and 64-bit
>>>> Intel architectures. Of course removing 32-bit will free another 10MB.
>>>>
>>>> There is an effort for the next release (0.7) to prepare a (much)
>>>> smaller runtime used during static AOT compilation. The resulted binary
>>>> would not contain LLVM code, and some Ruby features would also not be
>>>> available. I estimate the binary size to then be a couple of MBs (maybe
>>>> less), but this is an estimation :-)
>>>>
>>>> Laurent
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Lopes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello, this is my first post here and I am new in the Apple Dev/MacRuby.
>>>> I don't know if this the right mailing list, I don't found any other in the
>>>> MacRuby site related to questions about development. So, if this mail isn't
>>>> appropriate here please let me know. Some days ago, in a sample app, I tried
>>>> to embed the MacRuby Framework to distribute the app as a standalone package
>>>> but the size of the app became huge. There is some effort to make the
>>>> embedded framework smaller or any tip/tricks that I should do to get small
>>>> apps? Or all my apps will have 34mb? (It's not a big problem, just to know).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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