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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you can do that too. 
Which would be perfectly fine.  I fully support that type of scenario, and the developer tools will help make that a lot easier.

Garrett Serack | Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation 
I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on Windows.


-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:55 PM
To: Garrett Serack
Cc: Gerald Combs; coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Portable application deployment

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not really. Well--maybe--but not in the way you think, and likely this won't happen for a bit.
>
> Portable applications rely on a total lack of shared libraries; rather the complete autonomous packaging of everything needed to accomplish a particular task, and without installing anything.

What stops one from just linking everything statically?

Olaf