[Qt-interest] VC8 SP2 Build for 4.5.3

[David Ching]

"Eric Clark" <eclark at ara.com> wrote in message 
news:77C3F209EE1AF74381E70DC9485E3DA93D543FA5E0 at MAIL-EAST.exchange2.ara.wan...
> Understood. I was just curious if there were some problems with the new 
> libs that
> I was unaware of. Microsoft really messed up our releases when they did 
> this
> service patch. We had to make our users upgrade to SP2 because our company
> requires us to update. It is quite a pain when they decide to change the
> version of the CRTs and not inform anyone. It took a while to figure out 
> why
> our application would not start on other peoples machines simply because 
> they
> needed to update Visual Studio.
>

I don't believe the update from .756 to .4053 is called SP2.  It is the ATL 
Redistributable update and has been released to Windows Update something 
like 4 times.  MS really bungled this.  They don't even say why projects 
that don't use ATL but do use the CRT need to update.  They insist on 
calling it an ATL Update, but is it is really a CRT update also.  But not 
SP2.

FWIW, Qt does not even come prebuilt for VS2008 SP1 (which is a real SP). 
So I'm not surprised it doesn't come prebuilt with .4053.

FWIW, the runtimes in VS2010 are no longer manifested, so we will be going 
back to DLL Hell in exchange for Manifest Hell.  I personally prefer 
Manifest Hell because resolving issues is entirely within your (the software 
vendor's) control as opposed to being at the mercy of whatever 
redistributable was installed by the last software (who knows where that 
came from) installed by the user.

-- David