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[Philip Allison <mangobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 May 2010 17:57, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The plan of record is to have a small (<2k) bootstrapping DLL embedded in every MSI that acquires the CoApp core engine DLL--written in straight C, no additional off-platform dependencies that handles the entire dependency resolution & installation.
>
> There are many benefits to having a core engine dependent on nothing--and it costs us little except a tad increased complexity at development time (but, very few will ever have to deal with that anyway).
>
> If the core turns out to be smaller than I anticipate (my guess is somewhere around 50K-70K) we may consider foregoing the bootstrap DLL and embed the core engine directly. I'm not sure how tiny "smaller" would be.

Thanks for the clarification.  That's what I remember the plan being.
There is *one* bootstrap, but it's purely for size reasons, not
because we're planning on needing lots of dependencies for the engine
itself.

Regards,
Phil