Hi Juergen, thanks for feedback!
On 12/14/2017 11:04 AM, Juergen Funk Mailinglist wrote:
this is a good idea, but I think the better way is, when the system need the vc_redist then we "download" the new vc_redist.exe from MS and starting. This has 2 advantage - the LO msi would not be bigger - we install always the up to date redist-dll's
Well, the main problem here is that there's no "latest vc_redist.exe" static link on MS site. So, this approach is simply impossible without us creating a redirect on our side. And this would create additional problems:
1. Creating a redirect at TDF side imposes additional load to our server infrastructure; 2. Users will depend on reliability of TDF servers wrt this (in terms of their state, correctness of the link, and also possible man-in-the-middle problems with modified links pointing to malware) - note that LO downloads themselves are served from multiple mirrors, but this kind of redirection can't work using mirrors; 3. Users would need internet connection at time of setup (which might not be there: many download the installer, to bring it somewhere where there's no Internet connection).
So this is just not an option - at least, this is much worse than suggestion to simply telling people to manually download and install the redistributable themselves, put on the download page.
In the current way it is possible you install older one of the dll's, and after the LO installation it pop up the Windows-Update, that I think is a little bit strange.
No; this is absolutely normal - most softwares out there behave this way, so not different from usual. Of course, *if* your suggestion was possible to be implemented in a reasonable way, it would be best - but the downsides outweigh the benefit.
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