Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] gtk: make default UI

[Roy Tam]

2012/2/20 Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>:
> On 02/19/2012 08:24 PM, Brad Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 19/02/12 8:10 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If not, it will be nice to keep
>>>> SDL because GTK huge and not that portable for win32 users.
>>>
>>>
>>> Neither are true. GTK is a reasonably small dependency especially given
>>> that GLIB is a mandatory dependency. I can't imagine that in terms of
>>> binary size, libsdl is much bigger than gtk/gdk.
>>
>>
>> Double check your facts. That's not even close to being true.
>>
>> SDL is a tiny fraction of Gtk+.
>>
>> Just as an example taking a look at package sizes..
>>
>> 549KB for SDL vs 17.3MB for just Gtk+ and its dependencies (7 libraries)
>> excluding Glib2 and what it depends on.
>
>
> I don't see how 17.3MB qualifies as "huge".

You have to compare the SDL library with GTK and its dependencies.
SDL is "small" while 32-times-bigger GTK libraries should qualify as "huge".

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>
>  Glib2 and dependencies are 14.5MB
>>
>> (5 libraries). The two in total drag in 12 libraries at 31MBs. That's IMO
>> a fair bit larger than QEMU itself at 25.9MB.
>>
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