On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Eric Wing <ewmail...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Eric: >> >> My opinion is your point about size is weak because IUP normally depends on >> a big suite of graphical libraries in the GTK+ case or a big set of >> system libraries such as GDI/GDI+/Uniscribe or Direct2D/DirectWrite in >> the Windows case. > > On systems the provide first class native GUIs, I would disagree with > this point because the system libraries are typically already loaded > by everything. Furthermore, even non-native frameworks like Qt need to > link into the native frameworks even though they may not be using much > from it. So you take a double hit because you get both the system > frameworks and the non-native implementation. This is very apparent on > Mac, where everything links to Foundation and AppKit as a baseline. > > I do cede that GTK is not small. However, almost all the distros I see > today ship at least GTK2, with a lot of forks UI forks in protest of > GTK3 and Gnome, and intentionally kept GTK2 alive because it was much > smaller than GTK3. So there is probably something already on your > system using it. But if you really need something smaller, Motif is > always an option. (Also, somebody is experimenting with my Cocoa > backend and has a prototype working in GNUStep on Linux though I > wouldn't necessarily consider that small either and few systems > install it.)
If small and self-reliant are the criteria, how does FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/index.php) stack up? For something like cmake-gui it would probably work just fine, and AFAIK it doesn't require GTK... it uses LGPLv2 with a static linking exception, so it's probably as good/better than the current Qt requirement in that department. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
