Re: How to avoid DLL hell?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 26/11/2010 7.29, steve donovan wrote:
> The other issue is that there needs to be a repo for pre-compiled
> versions of the most popular packages - I don't know what the
> LuaBinaries project feels about that?

Ideally (for Windows) with versions for the major system DLLs: MSVCRT, 
the latest VC version and (possibly) cygwin.

Also, removing the need to have VC to just add a library, and at least 
making it possible to _easily_ build it with an open source compiler, 
would be quite useful.

<dream>
A website where the user chooses a lib, a Lua version, an OS, a C 
runtime (for Windows)... and the module is compiled on the fly (and 
cached, of course).
</dream>

(all the above is easy to say as I'm not offering to do it :-))

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  Enrico