[rkward-devel] static windows binary

mat matthieu.stigler at gmail.com
Thu May 6 08:45:48 UTC 2010


meik michalke a écrit :
> hi,
>
> now that i've toyed around with the windows version a little (nice to see that 
> rkward can be run from a network share and even a DVD without installation), i 
> was wondering if a static build was possible.
>
> the needed kdebase installation consumes around 700 MB of disk space, and i 
> doubt that rkward uses all of the installed tools and libs. if a static build 
> could save a significant amount of that space, i'd prefer to have such an 
> option.
>
> well, i'm not using windows anyways, but it's hard to convice someone to give 
> rkward a try if that means to install so much otherwise unneeded stuff.
really agree! I tried to convince a few people to use rkward on Windows 
but the long and tedious installation was an argument I could not 
counter :-(
>  apart 
> from that, of KDE could be stripped down to the really needed parts, rkward 
> could easily be burnt as a live CD for windows users.
>
> how do you feel about this?
>
>
> viele grüße :: m.eik
>
> [btw., probably expect some feedback in the next weeks, as with two collegues 
> i've just started an R workshop at my institute. we expected 5-10 people, but 
> when more than 20 showed up we had to change for a bigger room... of course 
> we'll look at rkward, that's why i'm suddenly so interested in the windows 
> build. and that's where i got the idea of a static build: when 20 people try 
> to install using one WLAN hotspot...]
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