Steve Friedl wrote:
Alex wrote:
For #2, we can either distribute the Microsoft DLLs (1.4Meg) or require
that the user install the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable
Package' from the Microsoft web site. It's probably easier to just
include the DLLs.
I think it makes me a little nervous to take responsibility for distributing
somebody else's binaries when it's not so hard to point them to the right
place. But depending on how the installer is built I guess it might be so
much more convenient for the to just include them.
Steve
If this were Linux, I'd say you are right. On Windows, distributing a
program with all the components it needs is the norm, and people expect it.
Also note that the need to bundle with other components is so well
understood that even the almighty GPL provides a special exception,
saying you are not allowed to link with anything non-GPL, except stuff
that comes by default with your OS or your compiler (section 3 after the
subsections in version 2, right in the definitions part of what is the
source code (section 1) in version 3).
Shachar
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