Re: Are the manifests correct in version 1.6.12.20536?

On 23.02.2011 18:55, Claude Quezel wrote:
> When I installed the 1.6.12.20536 version, tortoiseSVN stopped
> working. After a little investigation with sxstrace (and learning a
> bit of manifest magic) I noticed that the tortoiseSVN.dll manifest
> contains two references to different VC90 CRT:
>
> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT"
> version="9.0.21022.8" processorArchitecture="x86"
> publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b">
>
> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT"
> version="9.0.30729.4148" processorArchitecture="x86"
> publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b">
>
> After removing the first reference (because I could not find the
> version in my winsxs folder), I was able to load the dll (with
> dependency walker) but the problem was pushed back to other dlls
> which also contain suspicious references.
>
> I then noticed that the VC90.MFC version in another manifest file was
> 9.0.21022.8 which leads me to believe a cut and past error.
>
> Keep in mind that I don't have a clue (almost) on how all this
> manifest thing works.

Thanks for the detailed report. Apparently that's a well known problem
with VS2008 and SP1. We're definitely not the only ones with that
problem (just do a web search and you'll see).

I managed to work around the bug. The next release (due in a few days)
will have this fixed.

Stefan

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