Re: system error 14001 and vcredist_x86.exe

[Peter Odding <xolox@...>]

Ross Berteig wrote:
> I suspect that DLLs "should" also get manifests, but I don't know 
> what kind of quirky mess you get when an application with a 
> manifest nameing one version of the CRT assembly loads a DLL 
> naming another version. Somehow I don't think that DLL hell has 
> been completely eradicated yet.... or that it can be in an 
> environment where a whole community supports an application and a 
> rich array of plug-in DLLs.

Not to be the pessimist I always am, but this almost seems to rule out 
binary distribution of *independent* plug-ins for the Windows platform. 
Surely this problem must have been solved already for Perl, PHP, Python, 
etc?! I can't believe it's the same mess over there :)

 - Peter Odding