[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/5/2019 3:51 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 9:04:25 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/27/2019 9:12 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 7:29:45 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> What did they add to the very latest versions of Qt 5 to make the
>>>> source code kit so large (even when compared to the early versions
>>>> of Qt 5) ?
>>>>
>>>> Qt was always a large source code kit, but the very latest versions
>>>> are just growing in size at a huge rate.
>>>
>>> It's the bloat of QML, JavaScript and the QML Engine.
>>
>> The first JavaScript engine came in 4.3 and first QML implementation in 4.7.
> 
> and it wasn't even remotely usable until 5.4 when they first brought
> in native look and feel to Qt Quick. It still ran like a 3-legged
> chihuahua in deep snow on many/most platforms. In 5.7 they
> __finally__ Qt Quick Controls 2 but it is still a long way from a
> lightweight UI tool.
That may very well be the case - I have not used the tools.

But QML and JS are still a bad explanation for the code base
size increase in 5 when they existed in later 4.

Arne