Bazaar 2.2.1 Windows installer fails

[Maritza Mendez]

Yes.  A lot of people in the MS forums (re)learned the hard way last
summer that the safest way to get the correct MSCRT libs is to use the
redist.exe which comes with Visual Studio.  Of course that assumes
someone has Visual Studio.

~M


On 10/14/10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:04:27 -0700
>> From: Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org>, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>>
>> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en
>> >
>> > Note, the newer runtime actually won't help people with this problem.
>> > The manifests mess is to try and make applications run against an
>> > exact version of a library, rather than the old way of
>> > this-version-or-later that caused all sorts of subtle problems. We get
>> > a whole bunch of different subtle problems under the new regime
>> > instead.
>
> FWIW, on one of my machines, I installed both the original VC 2008
> redistributable and its SP1, and had no problems installing or using
> bzr 2.2.1 after that.
>