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Getting pretty off topic here, but "30+ meg... for the most basic things" is a totally unrealistic assessment of cocoa. Sizes, INSTALLED, not from the compress
by delackner 18y ago
Getting pretty off topic here, but "30+ meg... for the most basic things" is a totally unrealistic assessment of cocoa.
Sizes, INSTALLED, not from the compressed DMG:
An entire quicken-like 100% cocoa app: 6 megabytes,
Seashore, a streamlined graphics editor based on the gimp: 8.4mb
And for a "truly small" example, the "wakeup your computer and play an itunes song" alarm clock I first wrote to learn Cocoa years ago: 500k.
- michaelneale 18y agoWell the only ones I know are as a user - adium, various dinky little utils like twitteriffic. Downloads seem to be min 30 meg, and memory usage around twice that, minimum. I just have never experienced cocoa apps to be any common definition of "lightweight". Maybe they are poorly written apps, but they work fine, and I only use the common stuff. "quicken-like" - well that means nothing unless it replicates the girth of horrible accounting rules that quicken has to adhere to - if its a "quicken like" accounting app, I guess it would not, so I don't think that really is a useful measure.