2009-10-09, 04:48
I don't know the technical details behind it, but as a user, I prefer an app to be self contained without having to install other things. I like that I can just take the XBMC folder, zip it, and move it to another PC without having to to much of anything else. It has let me spread the software far and wide among friends without much hassle. This had been especially nice when the "net" has gone down and I didn't have an XBMC installer on hand to share (before I started creating my own builds and archiving them).