[Hugin-devs] [Bug 1826071] Re: Hugin installer conflicts with other software

2019-04-24 Thread tmodes
AFAIK the redistributable are backward compatible, but not forward compatible. So the runtime must match at least the version of the used compiler. It will not run with an older one. And the installer should check the versions and install only newer redistributable. If the same version is already

[Hugin-devs] [Bug 1826071] Re: Hugin installer conflicts with other software

2019-04-24 Thread Dennis McRitchie
Makes sense. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Hugin Developers, which is subscribed to Hugin. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826071 Title: Hugin installer conflicts with other software Status in Hugin: Invalid Bug description: When I tried to

[Hugin-devs] [Bug 1826071] Re: Hugin installer conflicts with other software

2019-04-24 Thread Dennis McRitchie
That makes sense. Just a suggestion, but you might want to consider making the installation of the Redistributable be optional in the case where it is already present on the user's system. If the user chooses not to update their Redistributable with your bundled version, then the worst that will

[Hugin-devs] [Bug 1826071] Re: Hugin installer conflicts with other software

2019-04-24 Thread tmodes
Hugin installs all its own files in its own directory. So there is no conflict except Hugin is already running. The installer bundles also "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019". These files are provided by Microsoft and are needed to run Hugin. For convenience these

[Hugin-devs] [Bug 1826071] Re: Hugin conflicts with system software

2019-04-24 Thread tmodes
** Information type changed from Public Security to Public ** Summary changed: - Hugin conflicts with system software + Hugin installer conflicts with other software -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Hugin Developers, which is subscribed to Hugin.