On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:46:03 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> work together because of differences in DLL versions.
> 
> I suppose it's not completely solved anywhere, no. But it's a lot better
> than it was. At least DLL hell only affects third-party DLLs now, and
> installing software that *doesn't* share DLLs won't break your code. :-)

I'd go with that....

> It used to be a lot worse, tho, especially with things like third-party
> tcp stacks (i.e., winsock.dll), where every browser came with a
> different implementation of TCP and such.  Or the MS C runtimes, or the
> "New" 3D button graphics libraries, etc.  People would do things like
> try to replace the GUI libraries with their own in order to put their
> own "theme" on things, thereby breaking everyone else who actually based
> their code on released OS files. :-)

Yeah, I can remember back in the Win9x days there being 3rd party TCPIP 
stacks that you could create all sorts of havoc with.

Jim

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