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  2. From: Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: MUI 3.2 vs. BGUI
  5. Date: 8 Feb 1996 13:50:07 GMT
  6. Organization: Oxford University Computing Services
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  15. bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple) wrote:
  16. >But by the same token, what if a user already has BGUI?  They wind up
  17. >downloading a bunch of extra garbage over and over for every archive that
  18. >contains everything.
  19.  
  20. Programmers don't need to include the library in the archive.
  21. I stopped including it as that seemed reasonable, but then you get
  22. flamed for distributing 'incomplete' programs. Oh well.
  23.  
  24. It's also possible to write for both BGUI and MUI using a "GUI
  25. abstraction layer", picking the target GUI at compile-time. This
  26. is what I've done with a recent project.
  27.  
  28. Nick
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  30. | Nick Christie, IT Support,      <mailto://nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk> |
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