Windows side by side deployment ( aka sxs)

[carlls]

Greetings:

I am trying to avoid dll hell and am considering using the windows side by side approach to things. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376307(VS.85).aspx)

It appears since VS 2005 MS installs dlls in a dir like C:/windows/winsxs, and these files can be pointed to via the manifest file.

Does Intel FORTRAN support a similar philosophy?

Now to head off the obvious threads about Intel DLLs being backward compatible... I do know that is the claim and for the most part believe it. However applications with bugs may work just fine in version X.X dlls, but fail miserably in version X.Y dlls.

So with that in mind the side by side releases seem a reasonable solution.

Anybody else doing this?

Regards

Carl

[IDZ_A_Intel]

We do not provide our DLLs as shared assemblies. We looked into doing so, but developers at Microsoft convinced us not to do it, though I don't know what the specific issues were. Shared assemblies solve some problems but create others.