deploying exiftools.exe alongside another application

Started by mmr, November 26, 2016, 07:23:45 PM

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mmr

Hi all,

I have written an open source wrapper program for a package that converts x3f files to dng files.  Part of this wrapper calls exiftools to translate over the exif information.  The download is here:

https://github.com/Kalpanika/x3f_wrapper/releases/tag/v0.56.1

As part of this download, I'm including the x3f_extract.exe program in that zip file.  I would also like to include the exiftools.exe binary in the download for two reasons.

-- It's more convenient for users, since they don't have to do any post-installation configuration
-- It avoids having to force users to rename the binary to drop the '(-k)' substring, which causes the wrapper to hang.

Could I do that?  Or would that be considered Not Kosher?

Thanks!

Phil Harvey

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