QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad application

Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by beojan on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:43AM (#19127246)

> apps on windows usually ship all DLLs alongside the binary

Can someone tell me why this is the case? Beyond simply not having a package manager to do dependency resolution. You lose most of the benefits of shared libraries if you do this.

This is probably why dynamic linking appears to be decidedly a second-class citizen with Rust and co.

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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by setr on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:00AM (#19127290)

Afaik, they ship installers usually, not simply a dll binary for their local use; if its installed systemwide, no installation occurs, and if not, its installed system-wide. But the system’s copy is used generally, in either case.

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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by CamperBob2 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:10AM (#19127321)

Can someone tell me why this is the case?

Because hard disk space is dirt cheap and my time and sanity are not.

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