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

[Inge Wallin]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 19:03, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> 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 is a complete strawman and you know it, since the point was that there 
would be a #ifdef for when kdelibs was already present.  Thus there will be 
no difference at all when kdelibs is *not* present. Nobody is telling or 
expecting anybody to download kdelibs just to compile marble.

In this particular instance I don't know what the exact feature that Christian 
used, but I can imagine other instances when it would give new, attractive 
features for no other cost than linking Marble against it.  And after all, 
Marble *is* now a member of the KDE educational package.

	-Inge

> 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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