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Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

Adrian Cox wrote:

> So what are the other problems?

Programs picking up the wrong version of the DLL and failing with little or no explanation available to the user (whom will, likely as not, fail to provide a useful report to the developer, if they bother to report it at all), for one.

Alot of problems with pure-Windows programs result from Win32 not globally forcing this one-copy policy itself.

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