[Distutils] Simple idea to resolve versioning problems

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 16 05:03:51 CEST 2008


Paul Moore wrote:

> Is nobody but me seeing shades of Windows "DLL hell" in all of this?

I think DLL Hell occurred partly because people *didn't*
distinguish different API versions clearly with different
file names.

Also because programs were allowed to put shared stuff
in the system directory with no form of reference counting.

-- 
Greg


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