Hi Mike, *, On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Mike Kaganski <mike.kagan...@collabora.com> wrote: > On 12/15/2017 12:53 PM, Juergen Funk Mailinglist wrote: > […] >> I have mean directly from Microsoft not from TDF. > > As I mentioned, there's no "Latest VS 2015 redist" static link on their > side. Only "VS 2015 redist version X.Y.Z", which is the same as embedding > this specific version into installer.
Even if there was one, I'd object against relying on having internet connectivity when installing. > Also: at the time of creating the installer, we could possibly check that > our embedded redist is ~current, the redistributables then being handled by windows update → that's not as critical as with the current method of shipping the dlls locally. > so users would have reasonably low chance > to get update request related to newly installed software (taking into > account our rate of releases). OTOH, if a user chooses to download and > install an out-of-date version, then it's not unexpected that, e.g., > LibreOffice itself would warn about "newer version available"; so I don't > see anything unexpected here on redist side as well. Agreed. ciao Christian _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
