Re: nt service packs and hotfixes

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 08/22/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:42:51 GMT

In article <ak0n3p$l7k$5@nyheter.crt.se>, phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
>( why anyone should bother to run homegrown apps on wintendo is another
> question,
>a platform where installation of an application interferes with a
>central "registry", poorly documented and barely understandable)

I'm confused by what you've written here. I understand your dislike for
Windows, and I'm not about to tell you that you should be running it.
However, there's a good deal that seems either wrong, or poorly phrased.

Installation of an application does only that which the application's
installation program asks to do. That may sound obvious. Perhaps you're
referring to Microsoft's recommendation, in the Windows logo guidelines, that
installation of shared DLLs (not that there's much use to a DLL that isn't
shared!) include a step whereby information is written to the registry as to
how many applications rely on that DLL; an uninstall decreases that same
counter, so that shared components are not (supposed to be) removed until all
applications that share them are gone.

The registry hive format itself may be poorly documented and barely
understandable, but the registry access functions are, to my mind as a Windows
developer, acceptably well documented and definitely very understandable,
although there may be a few missing functions (delete a whole subtree, for
instance, as well as "rename"). I can't actually imagine any reason to write
or read the hives directly, though, but perhaps you can.

I hate writing posts like these, because for the next several days I get
hate-mail from people accusing me of being a "paid Microsoft shill". I don't
work for Microsoft, and I don't really like them very much - but I certainly
don't hate them either. I like or dislike various actions that they take, but
one of the things I _really_ hate is to see information professionals
dispensing misinformation, whether it is out of malice or simply because they
don't know the answer.

Alun.
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