On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 13:46, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW: Our current releases work because they put a copy of msvcr71.dll into > C:/WINDOWS/system32/. This trick was always vulnerable to having the file > replaced or deleted by some other application or installer. The option > has been specifically ruled out by Microsoft for the newer runtimes. >
Well, I have to side with Microsoft on this one. One of my favorite features of the jdk (on Unix) is how the installation is self-contained and "just works" without modifying any OS-specific directories, or indeed any sort of "install" process. Martin
