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@@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ attribution requirement). They may be less featureful, slower,
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and/or use more memory. If you're already using an equivalent
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library, there's probably no good reason to switch.
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+#### Why single-file headers?
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+Windows doesn't have standard directories where libraries
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+live. That makes deploying libraries in Windows a lot more
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+painful than open source developers on Unix-derivates generally
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+realize. (It also makes library dependencies a lot worse in Windows.)
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+Making them a single file makes it very easy to just
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+drop them into a project that needs them. (Of course you can
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+still put them in a proper shared library tree if you want.)
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+The difference between 10 files and 9 files is not a big deal,
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+but the difference between 2 files and 1 file is a big deal.
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#### Why "stb"? Is this something to do with Set-Top Boxes?
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No, they are just the initials for my name, Sean T. Barrett.
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Sean Barrett