[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

[robert gleeson]

Agreed, compression can help but the point is all MacRuby applications have a base-size of 30MB, while other dynamically linked Objective-C applications that do the same task are a lot smaller. Our application is 30MB before we write anything. I think thats the problem, even with compression(although I agree, it helps a lot).

Thanks,
Rob

On 15 Apr 2010, at 19:16, Jakub Suder wrote:

> 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
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