Paul Moore schrieb:
That's odd. In theory, having msvcr90.dll in C:\Python26 should be sufficient, as once python.exe is loaded, its directory is added to the DLL search path. Maybe it's something to do with the "side by side manifest installation" stuff (or whatever it's called).
Martin, can you comment? It looks like the 3.0 installer uses 2 copies of msvcr90.dll, where the 2.6 one doesn't. I would have thought that only one is necessary, but Gregor's experiments seem to demonstrate otherwise.
In practice it's not enough on XP and higher. Starting with XP, Windows supports side by side assemblies (SxS). SxS assemblies must be installed following a special convention. The MSDN web site contains some examples. It suc.. err it's fun :/ We are still having problems to integrate the MS Merge module into our MSI. Martin is working on the problem. In the mean time you can work around the problem by installing the MSVCRT 9.0 Redist. Christian