Re: Gtkmm Windows Runtime Installer - Silent Option

["John Hobbs" <john velvetcache org>]

Clearly I must not understand what's going on, perhaps you can clear
this up for me.

Say I have 10 different favorite Gtkmm apps that I really want to
install on my Windows machine, because they are great pieces of
software.  So I go download all 10 of them and install them, and each
one follows your recommendation of putting the libs next to the app.
So then I have 10 copies of the libs, and when I start up the apps I
get 10 copies of them in memory? (The question mark is because I don't
know if that is true with how dll's work, do they check memory even
when the loaded lib is from a different location on disk?)

So why provide a run-time installer at all then?  I mean, unless you
intend for developers to say "The gtkmm runtime is a pre-req" and have
them go download it, or provide that utility in their installer, then
why provide it at all?  Shouldn't a developer version that they can
take the libs from and distribute themselves be enough in that case?

I'm trusting that you have good reasons, you are clearly a dedicated
developer and knowledgeable person, but I just can't understand it
yet.

- John Hobbs

john velvetcache org