On 26May2016 1453, Sebastian Krause wrote:
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
This has been deprecated. It sounded like a great idea at the time (~8
years ago) but caused more problems than it solved. Python 2.7 and 3.2
(IIRC) were the last versions to use this feature.
The way to get the newest version is to run the installer, which will
upgrade if it has a newer version or leave the old one alone.
Cheers,
Steve
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