Fwd: Re: [gdal-dev] FWTools and GDAL 1.7.0

[Chris Barker]

On 1/6/2011 4:25 PM, Joaquim Luis wrote:
>> By the way, isn't there some new stuff about "side by side" installs
>> or something -- that's supposed to help dll hell?
>
> I think you are referring to the "manifests" but here also MS has
> changed their mind (aleluia). VC2010 doesn't have them anymore which IMO
> is a compelling reason to use this compiler whenever possible.

This is what I was talking about:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376307%28VS.85%29.aspx

It does look like it is (or was) MS's solution to dll hell -- however, I 
remember it causing much pain for wxPython (particularly for py2exe), 
and I'm happy to defer to the experts here that seem to know that the 
cure was worse than the disease.

-Chris


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