From: Stephen Kellett <snail@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T20:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.5 released

>On 8/25/06, mortench <mortench@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Great! I can't wait for the Windows Installer version of Ruby 1.8.5
>> (which will hopefully for a change be compiled with a recent MS
>> compiler such as MSVC++ 20005) :-)

I hope not. Visual Studio 8.0 has introduced all sorts of stupidities to 
the C/C++ world which should have stayed confined to the .NET world.

Stupidities like manifests and the inability to do 
LoadLibrary("MSVCR80.DLL") for similar reasons.

I often build trivial apps for testing purposes and sometimes deploy 
them to others computers. Not a problem with VC 6.0,7.0,7.1. Can't do it 
with 8.0 - complains about missing manifests and all manner of things. 
Can't find any documentation about it. I guess I should buy a $600 
Windows Installer based installer so that I can deploy my trivial app 
internally in the company (*). Simpler to stick with VC 6.0 and just 
copy the two files required across the network.

Keep it simple, use VC 6.0, 7.0 or 7.1.

Stephen

(*) I did do this 5 years ago only to find that on most Windows NT 4.0 
computers (in the UK at least) the MSI installer would fail and no patch 
from MS would fix it. Solution: Use a non "Windows Installer" installer.
-- 
Stephen Kellett
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