What Versioning Problems may occur with Win32 applications?
Currently two versioning problems occur with Win32 applications: • Versioning rules cannot be expressed for pieces of an application and enforced by the operating system. The current approach relies on backward compatibility, which is often difficult to guarantee. • There is no way to maintain consistency between sets of components that were built together and the set that is present at run time. These versioning problems combine to create DLL conflicts, where installing one application can inadvertently break an existing application because a certain software component or DLL was installed that was not fully backward compatible with a previous version.
