> I'm trying to package a legacy program that registers some third-party

> ocx and dlls. I see that the consensus is that I should be handling 
> this with a registry component. However, this application's 
> 'installer' just copies stuff into a folder off the root of c:\ and 
> runs a 'register.bat' to
> regsvr32 /s each necessary item.
> 
> In this case, is there really any downside to making the files 
> self-register?

For me the real problems with self-registration came when my components
had dependencies on C++ runtimes, that were not available at the point
at which I was trying to run the self-registration.

Regards,
John


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