John Melair wrote:
>
> As one of the many recent Windows bail-outs <g>, I'm trying what I can to
> get a lot of this "new and improved" software, and I only have one
> "complaint"....
>
> ...is it too much to ask for someone who writes new software, etc, which
> requires 50 million different file downloads, etc, to simply combine them
> into a single archive? I know there's a shipload of different versions of
> Linux out there, but this is getting ridiculous!
>
> --John
> They're not bugs! They're "Random Features"
Hi John!
What you're thinking of essentially amounts to statically linked
libraries, i.e. an executable program plus all the needed shared (sic!)
libraries in one directory. It is possible to distribute software this
way, but not very advisable because of the huge amount of data to
distribute and the possibility (and after just a few installs the
certainty) of duplicating shared libraries and thereby wasting space.
HTH!
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