dll hell vs. install hell

> Von: "david_m_bourguignon"
<david-m.bourguignonwanadoo.fr>

> As it is clearly stated on the Gaim website: "More
and more GTK apps
> are being ported to Windows, and rather than having
each app install
> its own copies of the GTK dlls, it is better that GTK
is installed in
> a common location to avoid having many duplicates of
the same dll."

> What the user is supposed to do then? Uninstall Gaim
when he wants to
> use Gimp? Is that dll hell vs. install hell?

No, Gaim is supposed to be upwards compatible (for example,
GIMP 2.2 is
compiled with GTK+ 2.4 for some compatiblity functions and
runs with GTK+
2.8 without problems) and should run with GTK+ 2.8.9 as
well.

In general, the huge leaps GTK+ makes, both in features and
lesser bugs per
release, don't justify sticking to older releases when it is
so easy to have
your program run with newer ones.

You should report this to the Gaim people, they should check
whether their
installer can just be updated.


HTH,
Michael

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