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@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ that had a noticible difference between the two. *textadept* is recommended. - - - **Q:** +If Textadept is so minimalist, why are the downloads around 10MB in size and the +unzipped folders 10s of MBs in size? + +**A:** +Each download contains 4 executables: 2 GUI versions and 2 terminal versions +(each version uses either Lua or LuaJIT). Furthermore, the Windows and OSX +packages bundle in GTK+ runtimes, accounting for some 3/4 of the total +application size. (GTK+ is the cross-platform GUI toolkit Textadept uses.) +Finally, starting in version 10, in order to be able to run on older Linux +systems whose libstdc++ does not support newer C++11 symbols, the Linux +executables statically link in a newer version of libstdc++. + +- - - + +**Q:** On Linux I get a `error while loading shared libraries: <lib>: cannot open` `shared object file: No such file or directory` when trying to run Textadept. How do I fix it? |