[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

[Jakub Suder]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 16:05, robert gleeson <rob at flowof.info> wrote:
> I agree, 100%, with Dave Baldwin. It would be nice to see the overall size
> of a MacRuby application reduced to somewhere between 5-8MB because of the
> reasons he listed. I don't think MacRuby can be a big player until we can
> distribute smaller apps.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be better if the app size was less than it
is now, but IMHO it isn't that bad at at the moment. The app I write
weighs 32 MB total (30 MB of that is MacRuby...), but after packing it
into a zip it's only 11 MB. Looking at my "installers" directory,
that's not a terribly big size - TextMate is about the same size,
Adium is twice that, Skype is over 4 times more...

Jakub Suder