Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> ...see a pattern yet?
>>
>> Yes. It means Sun is too stupid to even know what a "GUID" is.
> 
> This was my conclusion also.
> 
> Surely the correct behaviour would be to register a single interface and 
> give it a "do you support this API version?" method...
> 
>>> Next time you install some program and it says "registering 
>>> components" or "writing registry keys", this is what it's doing. It's 
>>> registering millions of COM ClassIDs!
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> Heh. I lost count of how many Office-related DLLs are in there. There's, 
> like, A LOT!
> 
You sure you don't have "older" versions still installed too? When you 
update the JRE it tends to leave prior versions, as a "just in case your 
program requires some bug that was only in 1.3.0_03, but got fixed 
later. I had to go back and manual uninstall like 4-5 of these, to free 
up space on my HD. I stupidly installed them in C:, and didn't realize 
at the time that the small size of that was going to produce bad 
results, or that Sun didn't "replace" the install, instead of just 
installing a new one.

Still, you get a bit of some of that with MS too, just not as much. In 
principle, the version isn't relevant, only if the function is there, 
and yes, if you do need a version, the sane solution is to ask if there 
is an interface that is backward compatible to it in there some place.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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