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That chunk of "third_party" stuff is a pretty tempting target.

Instead of using shared libs - like those that you've probably got on your system already - Google appear to like slurping everything into the one blob to solve dependency/versioning issues.

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That chunk of "third_party" stuff is a pretty tempting target.

Not all of it. Part of the third_party code is a modified version of bsdiff, and as the bsdiff author I specifically endorse the shipping of modified versions of bsdiff with the software which required the modifications.

It's probably not a terrible default, given their cross-platform development. Slurping everything into your app bundle is the official way of doing it on OS X anyway, and more or less the only sane way of doing it on Windows, whose DLL-versioning is notoriously bad. So if they were doing any factoring out of shared libraries, it'd be solely for the Linux version, which I could see them not considering worth the hassle.

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