The plan of record is to have a small (<2k) bootstrapping DLL embedded in every MSI that acquires the CoApp core engine DLL--written in straight C, no additional off-platform dependencies that handles the entire dependency resolution & installation.
There are many benefits to having a core engine dependent on nothing--and it costs us little except a tad increased complexity at development time (but, very few will ever have to deal with that anyway). If the core turns out to be smaller than I anticipate (my guess is somewhere around 50K-70K) we may consider foregoing the bootstrap DLL and embed the core engine directly. I'm not sure how tiny "smaller" would be. -----Original Message----- From: coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Philip Allison Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:38 AM To: Geoffroy Couprie Cc: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Code? (stripped who wrote what, because with the last few posts to this thread seemingly lacking any text not marked as reply, I've lost track...) >>> A compromise would be to have a very small bootstrapping CoApp >>> engine with no dependencies, that downloads the necessary >>> components, and eventually, the runtime libraries, and then runs the >>> whole CoApp engine. If the engine doesn't have these dependencies in the first place, we don't need yet another bootstrap. How many levels do you want? Yes, we will run into the need to have MSVCR## on the system very quickly once people start using the engine to install packages, but IMHO it should be because they've installed something that depends on it. It'll have to be "packaged" as an alien, but we've already had that idea. We don't need to bootstrap the bootstrapping bootstrap for the engine bootstrap bootstrap. Bootstrap bootstrap bootstrap. Just write the engine standalone - end of discussion. Please? Regards, Phil _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
