Am 2016-03-16 21:00, schrieb Randolph M. Fritz:
On 3/16/16, 1:51 PM, "Randolph M. Fritz"
<rmfri...@gmail.com<mailto:rmfri...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Why is Qt an especially onerous dependency? It's LGPL and pretty
common.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Guglielmetti, Robert
<robert.guglielme...@nrel.gov> wrote:
Because it's so fuc*ing big.
When 2 GB RAM is standard for a low-end system is that important?
*Any* dependency is "onerous", if it can be avoided with reasonable
effort.
It doesn't necessarily matter for the end user, if they are provided
with an installer including everything. But when developing and
maintaining
code, any small thing you need to include from external sources is like
a ball and chain. Even something small and simple like the tifflib has
caused a surprising amount of headaches for Radiance.
The standard trade-off for GUIs is OS dependency vs. toolkit dependency.
Since we already have a working solution for all other sytems, we can
focus on Windows here. Of course it would be *nice* to have something
platform-independent. But with our limited resources, the added
maintenance
headaches may not be worth it in this specific case.
-schorsch
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Georg Mischler -- simulations developer -- schorsch at schorsch com
+schorsch.com+ -- lighting design tools -- http://www.schorsch.com/
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