Re: Vista bug

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

The barnacle I was referring to was the awkwardness of the whole 
process, not the fact that it is security concious. Deployment should be 
easy not indeciperably hard. Regardless of which, documentation on said 
subject and error messages related thereto should also be explicit and 
clear. As I've already indicated, I have not found that to be the case.

Given that linking with the dynamic CRT libraries has always worked in 
the past, to switch to a new system that uses an identical method but 
which breaks completely absent the specific version of the dynamic CRT 
library (even with the same name) is dire. The fact it is so dire and 
that so many competent software engineers are confused by this 
"deployment issue" is testament to how horrible the whole thing is.

They should at least give you the option:

Version X.YZ of the Microsoft dyanmic CRT 8.0 is required. "
Version X.YZ is not present but a compatible version W.YZ is available.

Would you like to use it? They may be security issues with this choice.

	[Yes] [No]

For *most* people they'd be able to continue working OK, if slightly 
interrupted. I'm sure some people would think the above option is vomit 
inducing. I'm thinking of it as the desktop equivalent of the Internet 
Explorer Active X warning. I'm not delighted by the above suggested 
option either but it keeps people working. THey could have added an 
option to the manifest that specifically would allow/deny such an option 
depending on how important the DLL was (in the case of the MS CRT, which 
is pretty much unchanging from release to release it would be "allow").

Anyway its moot, they've done it and people have to live with it (I felt 
the same way about the awful Visual Studio 7.0 that was such a gigantic 
leap backwards in usability compared to VS 6.0).

Stephen

Stefan Sandberg wrote:
> I disagree, I think it's a very good thing to be able to specify my 
> executable's dependencies and security, and in the case of dll's & 
> libraries, have it present itself properly to others. I might not agree 
> with the syntax & method used either, but it has a very good purpose.