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[Richmond]

On 08/07/14 20:24, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 7/8/2014, 12:12 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> One of the words that has been buzzing around is 'modularise' (or,
>> possibly 'modularize' . . .);
>> and just as at present, with the standalone builder, one can opt to
>> include certain things and
>> exclude others, it would be good if that capability was expanded so that
>> developers could include in their standalone engine what they required,
>> and leave out what they didn't.
>>
>> For the sake of argument; it would be a bit odd to have to include all
>> the Unicode stuff if one were
>> building a statistical calculator.
>
> Agree, and I hope there is a toggle switch. But on the other hand, 
> even a calculator probably has a title or an About box, and then you'd 
> need unicode again if you plan to localize the app.
>

Frankly if all I need is a title: I'll make it in a textField in the 
IDE, tweak it around and do an "import
snapshot" so I end up with an image - then no Unicode needed at all. 
You'd have to be daft to include
'a bloater' of a library just for the sake of a title.

Richmond.