Warp wrote:
> 
>   In Windows you are forced to always include everything in the package.
> 

To be precise, you're not. For example Gimp at least used to (I don't 
know if it still does - haven't used Gimp for Win for a while) use 
dynamically linked GTK, so you had to install GTK first.

But if you *sell* a software saying "This will work on Windows[1] - just 
install it" it *has* to work on "plain" Windows[1] to keep your 
customers happy, that's why practically all commercial software packages 
include everything possibly needed (expect Windows[1] itself) - and from 
there it has got to be normal approach for Windows-world (which is 
highly commercial, even though there are lot of free software for 
Windows also).

[1] Heck, change this to anything you want - iPhone, calculator, RH6.2 
(Zoot), *anything*. If you promise your product to work on XYZ, it *has 
to* work on XYZ.

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