[fpc-pascal] another fpc RAD: MSEide

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Apr 19 13:42:54 CEST 2006


> 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"




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