Is it reasonable to..

Is it reasonable to bundle a .DLL in Food4Rhino when a user downloads my Grasshopper component GHAs?

I currently us NodaTime.DLL for managing date and times, as opposed to C#' DateTime class. This is mainly because NodaTime fits my needs. I am releasing my component package soon, and if I don't have NodaTime.dll in my /Libraries/ folder, I get dependency issues.

I have consulted Jon Skeet [creator of NodaTime], and he says it's alright on his end for me to distribute the library since it's open-sourced. But I am wondering if any other developers on Grasshopper have done so.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 21, 2014 at 7:52am

It's ok to ship dlls with applications, the system was designed with that in mind.

If you really don't want that, then you can put the DLL as a resource in your GHA project and write it to disk prior to loading it. That way you only have to distribute a single file.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 22, 2014 at 8:43am

I don't have access to Visual Studio right now, but it would be the same as adding an icon to your project resources. Just get the byte-array that represents the dll from your resources, and then either write it to the disk or load it directly from memory:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h538bck7(v=vs.110).aspx

David Rutten

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