[ptx] Re: [PanoTools-devel] branching libpano

[Daniel M. German]

 Max Lyons twisted the bytes to say:


 Max> But, when I put on my PTAssembler hat, I'm not so excitied about the idea.  I'm 
 Max> envisioning distributing two versions of the DLL (one for PTStitcher users and 
 Max> one for PTMender, PTOptimizer), reworking PTAssembler and its associated 
 Max> documentation.  I fear a barrage of confused e-mails from users (most of whom 
 Max> don't have the technical sophistication of the folks on this list) when they 
 Max> find themselves in "DLL hell"!  As much as I'd like, I don't have control over 
 Max> end-users' machines, and they frequently end up with weird combinations of out-
 Max> dated versions of files, copies of a DLL in seventeen different folders and so 
 Max> on...I fear that this will add to the confusion.

hi Max,

Why don't you build statically PTmender? In the case of PTstitcher it
wasn't an option, but for PTmender there is actually no reason to
distribute DLLs.

dmg



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