Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> BUT -- Steve Dower seems to have identified that the wonders of dll hell >> never cease, and this isn't possible anyway. Oh well. > > I'm not entirely grasping what's happening here. There are multiple > versions of msvcp140.dll floating around out there; what happens if > one app requires one of them and another requires another? Can you > simply say "take the newer one"? Is there a way to instantly recognize > that there's a newer one available, and ignore the older one? > Versioning is a *pain*.
Windows executables can and should ask for specific versions of the DLLs in the manifest (an XML file embedded in the EXE). Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly Sebastian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
