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I agree with Marco so much!
I can't understand why anyone these days would be concerned to have a
6kb executable? Have you recently downloaded or installed any programs
from CD/DVD?
Why would anyone want a *single* executable file? Count the number of
files in any folder in C:\Program Files!!! My dumb (but free) email
client is 20MB 139 files!!!! And it is dumb!
Let's not do away with BlackBox idea of going away from programs (batch
era) to components.
Those of you who develop software for customers, answer this: Do your
customers care if your solution is 2MB or 20 MB? Will it give you
competitive advantage if your executable is 10MB smaller than your
competitior's?
Do your customers care if you solution has 1 file or 100? I think they
would even get suspicious if yours was only 1 file, 'cause they are
trained to get programs with hundreds of files.
And a more serious one: Do your customers care for 'bells and whistles'
in GUI? Do you know people who chose Windows instead of Linux/GNOME or
Linux/KDE for the bells and whistles of Windows? Or visa versa?
My experience is that customers don't care about megabytes (because they
have gigabytes), they don't care about the number of files (only
concerned with where they need to click) and, as long as the program
does what they wanted in their domain, they care not for the bells and
whistles, and the spartan look of Blackbox is good enough.
Anton
> This subject has been going on for a long time, now.
>
> AND I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT REALLY IS ABOUT!!!
>
> What is the advantage of having one small exe-File in the File-System
> instead of a normal Command within the BB-Environment?
>
> * Is it about Shortcuts on the Desktop in order to execute the Command from
> outside BB?
>
> * Is it about distribution? I.e. not to distribute the BB Runtime?
>
> * Is it about Hard-Disk Usage? (Do you consider the final Usage when having
> N such small exe-Files INSTEAD of N commands within one and the same
> Runtime?)
>
> I MEAN:
>
> Where do you guys see the advantage of all this, knowing that BB serves as
> an OLE-Object-Supplier and is started automatically, e.g. when you open a
> Word-Document with an embedded BB-View.
>
> So, why do you care whether or not BB Runtime has to be around or not?
> Who noadays really has a problem downloading 2 MB from the Net and reserving
> 10 MB for a Runtime-Installation?
>
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