Patenting file formats might be disturbing, and I'm not an
expert, but I don't see how it would stop someone from reverse
engineering a
reader or a writer of that format.
I think it more likely that a file format patent *is* actually a patent on readers and
writers.
Danny Angus wrote:
(...)
The solution M$ have delivered appears to simply be a global registry
(the Global Assembly Cache), but it is well thought out in respect to
M$ probelm and is capable of maintaining multiple versions of the
same Assemblies (think jars) and using the correct one, either
Santiago Gala wrote:
Again IMO, any automated solution should not intrude into the ability of
the sysadmin to control what is in her machine.
Microsoft has always handled this problem in the wrong way ,assuming
that an automated installer knows better than the system administrator
and
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 18:17, Dominique Devienne wrote:
Could you please provide a link where to start looking to try to understand
how you are doing it? Like maybe a ViewCVS link? Thanks, --DD
Right now we use three approaches we have a WerkzResolver for
short-lived graphs which we use for the
