On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:33, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:05:34 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > No hacks needed; you just have to embrace reality. > > The reality is that 95% of computers run Windows which is very good at > supporting developers who distribute binaries in this way. On Linux > there's all kinds of gotchas you just Have To Know which is silly and > unproductive - worse, people only find out about this stuff _after_ they > get burned by it.
Rubbish. You've obviously never tried to install two third party windows applications that require two different revisions of msvcrt.dll, or even worse two random versions of an OCX control. In my experience most windows applications work because they're either statically linked, or ship with a copy of every single library they need. Paul
