From ec391b6bfe8d87f4fb1bbb2a4e6033eaad9f4672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:20:24 -0400 Subject: Start using Scintilla's LongTerm3, which now includes Scintillua and Scinterm. Since LongTerm3 requires a C++11 compiler, GCC 4.9+ is required. Since C++11 includes regex capability, drop TRE dependency. --- FAQ.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'FAQ.md') diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index ae043cc1..b7ecf567 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -16,6 +16,21 @@ 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: : cannot open` `shared object file: No such file or directory` when trying to run Textadept. -- cgit v1.2.3