Re: [AD] Windows binary suggestion

[SiegeLord <sie...@gm...>]

On 08/03/2015 06:01 AM, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> But I guess in the end the best thing is to build
> Allegro yourself to meet your needs if you're going to be distributing
> anything, and use the binaries to get you started...

I think that no matter what we do, sometimes this will just have to be 
the best way forward.

Anyway, going back to the dlls. In principle, dlls are there so you can 
replace them without distributing the entire game's binary. The more 
dlls you have, the more fine-grained patches you can make. Perhaps, 
however, it is not important to replace the dependency dlls since, with 
few exceptions, Allegro's dependencies are very stable and don't need to 
be replaced? If that's the case, perhaps there's no issue in statically 
linking the dependencies into the dlls (this is definitely possible, 
it's just not currently done). If there's some issue, you'd just replace 
the Allegro dlls. How does that sound?

-SL