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Hi,
On 13.07.2016 10:59, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2016-07-13 10:12, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
On 2016-07-12 09:41, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
yes. that's the microsoft way to ship dependencies.
Lets keep Microsoft out of this, this is a Pd and Pd externals issue.
no. we can leave out my rant, but shipping dependencies multiple times *is* the w32 way, and i do think we should follow that path. the alternative - installing 3rd party dependencies to %pd%\bin or even to %System% - is a very good way to break your system.
Windows is missing a central repository for shared libraries.
Let me take my own package purest_json as an example:
- I can tell Linux users to install liboauth, libcurl, and json-c,
because it is available in central repositories for all distributions.
- I compile these dependencies (and their dependencies) in the
resulting dlls, because there is no user-friendly way to tell users to download the dlls.
- I do not know how to do it in Mac OS X, but as far as I can tell
from pull requests that I have merged, it is more like on Windows than on Linux.
Just my $0.02, Thomas
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