Re: [PHP-GTK] PHP-GTK Standalone Kit

On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Elizabeth Smith wrote:
> Remember a full php-gtk install is NOT SMALL

Even if you install PHP-GTK with all deps for each single application, the 
real-world cost is so small as to be irrelevant. Is it optimum? Of course 
not - but the real world realistically doesn't give a flip. 

Disk space costs somewhere in the vicinity of 50 cents per GB. At that cost, a 
11 MB install realistically costs less than 1 US penny! And even if my 
back-of-the-napkin math is off by orders of magnitude, that could at most 
raise the price to just $0.10! 

The real question is simply thus: is PHP-GTK the most PRODUCTIVE language to 
get your needed application to work? It is a decent, useful, cross-platform 
language. It is reasonably stable, and the annoying bugs that are there can 
generally be worked around. 

I've found PHP4/GTK1.x to be useful enough to build a successful company with, 
so from my perspective, PHP-GTK is quite useful and *DEFINITELY* worth it. 

Whether it is the "best" is an exercise left up to the individual developer. 
Having a single software platform to share data with client and server has 
proven to me invaluable. That my servers run PHP and share data with my 
client software makes PHP-GTK a no-brainer. 

And the 10 or so MBs for the installer has *NEVER* shown up on the RADAR as in 
any way problematic. (For MacOSX, the installer effectively swallows some 400 
MB with X11, XCode, and the PHP-GTK binaries, and even that is deemed worth 
it by my clientelle) 

I guess the real question to answer is introspective - is your program 
actually worth $0.01 to your end users? 

-Ben 

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