Re: dia.exe and dia-win.exe

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 12.02.2006 06:36, Steffen Macke wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to ship two flavours of dia with the
> next Windows installer:
>
> * dia.exe which is linked with /subsystem:console, allowing to
> use see commandline output and error messages
>
> * dia-win.exe which should be used by default, linked with /subsystem:windows
>   This is available from the Start Menu, Desktop and Explorer double-click
Looks so reasonable that I just have changed the win32 build to do it.
dia.exe and diaw.exe both link dia-app.dll which contains almost all of
the previous executable.

> What do you think about this? Remember the many complaints of people
> about the "DOS" Window that confused them.
IMO the sum of complaints is a constant - if not rising like the entropy
of the universe ...
> Hans: Is it ok with you to change app/makefile.msc to build both
> dia.exe and dia-win.exe?
See above. Just creating two parts seemed to be too much of a waste in
build time as well as in disk space. The three part solution is
already in CVS.

        Hans

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