[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Fully automated cross-compiled Windows installer with GTK3 and x86_64 (#2592)

[tivrfoa]

> @eht16 just being devils advocate, not necessarily pushing for it as I am not a Windows user, but:
> 
> > On the contrary the installer size would be even bigger (not sure how much this is an issue nowadays).
> 
> Geany Windows download == 16Mbytes, Plugins Windows download == 36Mbytes, total 52Mb compared to say Vscode Windows download 62Mbytes, Eclipse hundreds of Mbytes, etc etc as you say I doubt its an issue :)
> 

Maybe most people that use Geany do it because it's a lightweight editor, so maybe should compare size with other lightweight editors.

Notepad++.exe is 3.6MB

And the tendency is to have more plugins, so what now would be 52MB can be much bigger later. 

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