Simon,
Thanks for the clarification. Btw, is bottom-posting the standard in this
group? As you can tell, I'm rather fond of top-posting. Yes, I've ready many
of the arguments why bottom-posting is better – I simply don't buy it. But
I'll be happy to comply with group standards. Regards, Joe
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Subject: Re: [sqlite] Incompatible versions of SQLite on same system
From: Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org>
To: General Discussion of SQLite Database <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:59:02
On 12 Jan 2012, at 6:30am, Joe Winograd wrote:
Thanks to both of you for your responses. I'm back to wondering how SQLite can
be effective in the PC world with so many different programs using many
different versions of SQLite. Since all versions are backward compatible, I was
liking Richard's suggestion to get the latest-and-greatest DLL everywhere, but
the DLLs for the two conflicting programs aren't even present.
Joe, I assume your suggestion to "remove all System.Data.SQLite assemblies from the
GAC and 'convert' them to be application-local" is directed at the software
developers (like HP and Intuit), not at end-users (like me
Just to be clear, so is Richard's real suggestion, which is the programmers
should statically link to a SQLite library, or to include SQLite source code in
their applications and not use a library at all. SQLite is (deliberately
designed to be) tiny. Including it all in every application which used it
wouldn't use much disk space and would mean problems like the one you reported
would never happen: you could have ten apps all expecting different versions of
SQLite, and they could all run at the same time with no installation or path
problems.
Unfortunately, as you noted, this is a decision which can be made only by
programmers, not users like you.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, Doctor Richard Hipp is SQLite's creator. His
advice about it is pretty good.
Simon.
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