by Frank W. Zammetti » Aug 7, 2001 @ 1:26pm
I'll have to go play with that a bit. Yes Dan, I prefer to embed everything into one monolithic EXE, but only because I think that's cleaner in terms of installation and removal. Wouldn't be much of a hassle to write my own poor-performing compression algo using standard file I/O, but I'd rather have it all in one place.<br><br>I certainly know about flexibility, and that approach ain't it, but in my mind (a scary place indeed!) I'd rather sacrifice that flexibility than having to worry about multiple files, possibly in multiple locations. I've dealt with DLL Hell, like everyone else, far more than I'd ever like, and even though that's not really what we're talking about, anything even remotely like it I disdain. <br><br>However, I may have to re-think that stance seeing as the apparent simplicity and performance of zlib probably makes it a moot point. Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it!