From kde-core-devel Sun Oct 31 15:18:29 2010 From: Mark Kretschmann Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:18:29 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: why kdelibs? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=128853967613915 On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On the other hand, Krita would, I am sure, much bigger if it didn't depend on the KDE platform. For KOffice, we had to hack down kdelibs and package a pre-generated sycoca to make it work. The platform fills in the holes on unix platforms, but it's a pain everywhere else. We have the same issue in Amarok: Our current Windows build is (in compressed form) 150 Megabytes. -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org - http://www.kogmbh.com