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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by SOLAR_FIELDS on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:18AM (#14087978)
> To build nidium you need at least 5.7GB of disk space. A build from scratch may take 30 to 90 minutes, depending of the speed of your computer.

Is this abnormally large for a project like this?

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by pavlov on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:22AM (#14088025)
Building Chromium/CEF requires several times more disk space and takes several hours on my new MacBook Pro. So I guess the answer is "not abnormally large".
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by paraboul on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:23AM (#14088034)
Well, it has a lot of dependencies to build :

- mozilla spidermonkey

- Google Skia

- ffmpeg

- portaudio

- leveldb

- OpenSSL

And various other stuff.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by cookiecaper on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:04AM (#14088509)
Just for comparison: I can build WINE from scratch in 6 minutes on my laptop (10 years ago, it took 20 minutes).
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