Makes sense to me! I was thinking more along the lines of file-size (to download/distribute) and caching but yeah, those sorts of computers wouldn't have any trouble. On the *other* hand -- there's a lot of people (just from reading the forums) who want Haiku to: 1. Run on ARM and other, even less-powerful chip-sets 2. Run responsively on their old computer so they can use it to play movies or whatever they can't do with any other OS Me -- I don't really care, either way. I think having statically-linked applications sounds like it would alleviate a lot of distribution issues. I think it would also be nice to just have that simple file you download, double-click and boom it's ready to go. Then again, my primary computer has a 6-core CPU and I'm more excited to see Haiku move forward rather than reminiscing in nostalgia. Plus, there's not a whole lot of people out there to do packaging maintenance so this might be a realistic route to follow. In the amount of time it would take to do a proper dependency-checking package management system, Haiku could put together some "fat binary" documentation (maybe include a Haiku installation system like Windows provides) and build a web-site or "app store" to make distribution that much easier. Progress could be just around the corner! On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Sean Collins <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Kurtis Mullins wrote: > >> I like the iea of fat binaries -- but haven't seen them in a long time. >> How well do they work these days realistically in terms of size? Also, what >> about in terms of memory? I always thought that was one of the big benefits >> of shared libraries. >> >> > They work just fine. Most of these libs are under a mb, were talking > negliable impact on system memory and disk space. The big benefit of shared > library's mattered when 8mb of ram was expensive and disk space was equally > exspensive. Most of the time the media files on the pc outwieght the libs > in the played but magnitudes of order. No one really cares imho. Also loads > of windows software comes in fat bundles so to speak. No one really cares > about that either. > > The $299 pc at walmart this week has 4gb of ram and 750gb of hdd with a > dual core cpu at 3ghz almost, really, the extra couple of hundred kb or > even a few mb isn't going to matter. Its not 1996 anymore.I agree that > haiku needs a system update scheme, and for that the package management > should provide a good base for system updgrades. But honestly the last > thing I want any application doing is updating stuff other applications > depend on. Its caused me nothing but headaches over the years. > > Sean > >