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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Ted Bullock <tbullock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Jonathan Ben-Joseph <jbenjos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is because C truly is the least common denominator when it comes to
>> language binding, almost every mainstream language can call directly into C
>> shared libraries without much of any boilerplate code (see P/Invoke in .NET
>> or ctypes in Python for example).
>
> Yes this is precisely why.  Also, we want to be able to bundle it into
> packages so that if someone chooses to install a package outside of
> the standard tools (administrative installs for example), CoApp will
> be there and be able to get all the dependencies.

Wasn't the idea to include a tiny DLL inside each MSI that is able to
download the engine on demand?
That tiny DLL is not the same as the entire engine.

Olaf