> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > >> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, ???? ??????????? wrote: > >> > >>> I do neither use Lazarus, nor MSEide, but if executable size is really > >>> important, there is something called KOL (I didn't use it either). As I > >>> have read, it's currently compilable by FPC. > >>> > >>> Speaking of bigger applications, I don't see much difference between 6 or > >>> 30 Mb executables... > >> > >> Try downloading them over a 56k modem ;-) > > > > Try downloading a 6M one using a trained parrot (read: 300 baud). Where do > > you put the border of what is "normal"? > > The point I was trying to make was that although harddisk space is > relatively cheap, distribution size is a factor to take into > consideration... Not everybody has broadband, I assume.
I know, see the faq about binary sizes http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Size_Matters "modem distribution" _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
