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

[Joaquim Luis]

> Perhaps that's why the standard place for Python is NOT in "Program 
> Files"

Yes,  there is wisdom.

>
> That being said, "Program Files" does seem to work fine for me most of 
> the time.

And for the (1 - "most") times that it didn't work you knew how to fix 
it (enclosing the full path with "") but many people don't know it.

> 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.

Joaquim