2014-12-17 0:45 GMT+01:00, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au>:
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent:
> Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or
> modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code
> complexity is in the creation and modification.
>
> The point is that as any software becomes more capable it necessarily
> gets bigger. It gets more capable because more people are using,
> supporting, and coding it. And users are continuously asking for new
> features and that means it's going to get bigger.
>
> So I'm suggesting any successful PDF creator/modifier is going to be a
> big binary.
But when one application gets as big as an entire operating system, or
even bigger?! I can't believe that a well designed application should
need to be that bloated. And it's only a document handler, not a bloody
virtual reality flight simulator.
I understand your sentiment, but acroread is probably as big as it is
because it's statically linked (or so I think; I can't check it now).
That's probably their only option, given that they
want to stay distro and version agnostic as much as possibble.