Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > (And I thought that manifests and side-by-side assemblies were > supposed to solve the "DLL hell")
I'm now convinced that they make things worse, to the degree that certain deployments that used to work cannot be longer made to work (e.g. the Python setup of having DLLs and executables in different directories). This was one of the reasons why I resisted Python switching to VS 2005, and hesitant to accept the switch to VS 2008. It is telling that the MS merge module for the CRT automatically sets ALLUSERS=1, refusing even to consider non-admin installs. Going forward with py3k, we should try to drop even more dependencies on the C library, and then perhaps try to link statically for the rest. ---------- assignee: -> loewis nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4091> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
