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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)
From:       Andre Poenitz <andre.poenitz () mathematik ! tu-chemnitz ! de>
Date:       2008-11-24 18:50:35
Message-ID: 20081124185035.GB4974 () tu-chemnitz ! de
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:26:30AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >> Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make
> >> the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the
> >> absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk
> >> space problem would be even worse.
> > 
> > I meant just for application which feel that they have to distribute
> > their own version-of-the-day
> > of whatever.dll. There is no reason to do it everywhere of course.
> 
> Still not feasible, unfortunately, because that includes everything
> linked with any of the Microsoft C/C++ runtime DLLs.

*cough*

We were _not_ talking about statically linking _everything_. We were
talking about things like Qt which are not a typical part of a Windows
system.

> This is the central problem: if you build an application that uses
> anything in the MS C/C++ library (Microsoft combines the C and C++
> standard libraries into a single DLL), which means pretty much
> anything built with a Microsoft C or C++ compiler, or with the
> Microsoft Platform SDK, you'll link against some specific version of
> one or more of the MSVC DLLs. You don't have much choice about which
> version you get - it depends on what version of the compiler or SDK
> you have installed, and what updates have been applied to it.
> [...] [...] [...]

You are fighting windmills.

Andre'
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