[Qt-interest] VC8 SP2 Build for 4.5.3

[Eric Clark]

> "Eric Clark" <eclark at ara.com> wrote in message
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> > 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.

Yes, you are right. I remember getting these redistributable changes prior
to SP2. So, I guess, my original question was not worded appropriately. It is
not SP2 that I wanted Qt built under, it is the .4053 version of the CRTs that
I was looking for a build on.

> 
> 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.

Me neither. Although, we have a commercial version of Qt and if they wanted
to keep their commercial customers, you would think they would take a little
extra time to make them happy, instead of just blowing it off like it means
nothing to them. It would not take long to build and package a version with
the .4053 CRTs or the SP1 for VS2008. They build so many different versions as
it is. What is the problem with one or two more? We pay a whole lot of
money to get support from Qt, you would think that they would be interested
in keeping us happy!

> 
> 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.


And yet again, Microsoft never fails to mess things up. If only they could
have some people on their team that could make up their minds!

> 
> -- David
> 
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