Hilmar,
Maybe you could distribute patches to your .exe. I've never tried it...there are a couple of options given here:
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410435>One of my clients wants to distribute a program over the Internet. For the first version, the executable alone is 2-3 MB - OK, we can live with that.
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>However, for subsequent upgrades, we want to make the executable significantly smaller - and I don't have a clear idea how to separate components, e.g. into APP, etc.
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>The larger part of the 2-3 MB is the third-party framework we use - and I believe we can't legally distribute any of that in any way except within an EXE.
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Steve Gibson