[Wine]Re: Re: Re: wine-20050111 - missing MSVCR71.dll

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:32:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> This is independent of Windows or Wine, correct? 

Correct.

>                                                  Wine must play by the
> same rules? If I install an app that places a copy in it's own
> directory then the app could use that. Do you let any app install a
> copy in system or system32 or do you implement the same sort of 'You
> are attempting to installa  version that is older..." protections? (Or
> maybe that's part of the installer app?)

Usually that's a part of the installer app, though on Wine you'll hardly
ever get this message as the DLLs can't be "overwritten" rather they are
silently overridden.

> Anyway, thanks for the lesson. you've succeeded in scaring me even
> more about Windows.

Windows is easily the scariest piece of code I've ever encountered :)

thanks -mike