[cvsnt] Re: Looking up *_protocol.dll

[Tony Hoyle]

McNamee, John wrote:
  > Here's my problem...  This change is making my life difficult, and I
> really want to understand why.  I understand that programs other than
> cvs.exe may need use the registry to find the protocol DLL's, but that
> isn't my question.  Why is cvs.exe doing it?  What would break if
> cvs.exe reverted to the prior behavior?

cvs.exe doesn't.  The cvs apis do, and cvs.exe is just a client of those 
apis.

Frontends can create a closed installation if they like (and some do) - 
the option is there, but it's really not recommended because of the side 
effects you get when two libraries with the same name are loaded. 
Windows still doesn't handle that very well.

Tony