[Marble-devel] [Patch] fix marble data dirs on win32

[Torsten Rahn]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 18:49:52 Torsten Rahn wrote:
> On Saturday 03 November 2007 17:40:06 Inge Wallin wrote:
> And all this at the cost of trying to force the developer
> - to download an additional 10 MB package

Erm actually it's not so much the developer I worry about. Moreso the user. If 
we advertise Marble as a "lean" and "lightweight" alternative (which 
currently measures about 10MB vs. other map widgets or applications which use 
a lot more in the default configuration) then it's simply hideous if we 
expect users to download kdelibs and thereby increase the library amount by 
100%  just to make use of < 1% of its API and functionality in the end.

That being said for apps like KWord it makes very much sense to make use of 
kdelibs as there are clearly many aspects of a wordprocessor that can benefit 
from the rich API that kdelibs offers. 
For other apps like a frontend for a virtual PC application I'm inclined to 
say that the additional overhead of kdelibs makes no sense when looking at 
the cost-benefit ratio.  

Torsten 


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