mental@...3... wrote:
Quoting "Jon A. Cruz" <jon@...18...>:
On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Bob Jamison wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
- regarding the size, JVM is a bigger dependency compared
with
either Perl and Python;
I agree. It would add 15 MB or so for the JRE.
Or 0 MB or so for OS X.
Or 0 MB for most Linux users, because there's no easy way to install a working JVM.
Do you really expect most end-users to be able to hunt down and install the blackdown stuff?
Actually, the JRE doesn't need to be 'installed'. What we have done in the past for commercial apps, and which would work for anyone, is also the preferred way of doing it... Bundle the jre as a subdirectory of your app's distro directory, and instead of calling "java ClassName", call "./jre/bin/java ClassName". Often the end user is never aware that he is using a Java app.
But, again, I'm not espousing this for Inkscape.. just describing how this is not necessarily such a horrible monster.
bob