On 21 May 2010 17:57, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com> wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the clarification. That's what I remember the plan being. There is *one* bootstrap, but it's purely for size reasons, not because we're planning on needing lots of dependencies for the engine itself. 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
