Qt5... bleagh!
Saturday, 6 April 2013 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eI was having a long, recursively difficult problem compiling a program that had innumerable dependencies. Eventually I reached a point where one of the dependencies wouldn't compile without Qt5. So, groaning, I found the download page and began the download. But when I saw the size, I was disgusted and said aloud, "You've gotta be kidding me!" It is 388 MB in size! For a GUI toolkit; just an interface system!
To put this in perspective, the entire Puppy Linux operating system with windowing interface, file manager, gtk GUI toolkit, various packages like word processor, spreadsheet, web browser, and hundreds of other utilities weighs in at just over a quarter that size.
Who in their right mind creates a GUI toolkit that bloated? I mean, Microsoft might, but this is happening in the Linux world. Not good.
I betcha it runs like a snail too.
To put this in perspective, the entire Puppy Linux operating system with windowing interface, file manager, gtk GUI toolkit, various packages like word processor, spreadsheet, web browser, and hundreds of other utilities weighs in at just over a quarter that size.
Who in their right mind creates a GUI toolkit that bloated? I mean, Microsoft might, but this is happening in the Linux world. Not good.
I betcha it runs like a snail too.