In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Bit by bit, I am remembering now just how stupifyingly brain-dead the MS DLL >scheme is. . . . Part of the trick is that it demands deep understanding to detect the antisynergies that arise from the interac- tions of the DLL, registry, and filesystem schemes. I know it was only this year that I realized the whole installation-requires-reboot absurdity is a consequence of DLL (mis-)design.
That's judgmental of me. What I'm saying is *I* wouldn't do an OS that way. It's certain, though, that I'll never extract as much consumer surplus as Microsoft has, so my evaluations should count for little. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list