I have noticed that over the years LinuxCnc is taking up more and more
space and that this is mostly related to supporting the QT related
work. When looking at the amount of Pythom code that is now contained
in LinuxCnc it appears to equal more than 90% of all the code present
based on my prior searches and charting.
I'm not in love with QT and in my personnal LinuxCnc installs QT related
items are one of the first things that gets removed from LinuxCnc. To me
it is just a tool to allow building QT based sluggish user interfaces
that I dont use. It would be better if it was a optional install for
users that which to use it. I do understand that it has taken a lot of
work to develop the QT things but I would like to see LinuxCnc trimmed
down to just containing the essential things.
As far as tools for building user interfaces It would also not surprise
me if the next fad for building those is just around the corner and that
QT will hopefully be just part of the old LinuxCnc history. I there
will always be newer and better ways to get things done without getting
trapped into a current fad.
It was not to may years ago that LinuxCnc was just over 120Mb in
extracted size. Now V 2.9 master is takes up 252Mb so its getting
bloaded with a lot of none essential things. I think it needs a good
cleaning to get it back on track. I feel that there are to many
personnal projects being added that are better suited to be developer
supported addtions and not part of LinuxCnc itself.
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