DLL conflict between SP and EMC Networker

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/18/12 8:51 AM, "Francis Swasey" <Frank.Swasey at uvm.edu> wrote:
>
>We've tripped over this and argued with EMC about it to no end.  The
>problem (as we've experienced it) is that NetWorker (arrogantly) puts its
>install directory at the start of the Windows PATH.  The solution (for
>us) is to manually put the NetWorker directory where it belongs... (which
>I assure you is not FIRST IN LINE)

Well, nobody's right or wrong, it's just that Windows doesn't have a
standard versioning mechanism nor does it have a standard runtime library.

The traditional notion of DLL Hell is nonsense, but this aspect is just
unavoidable.

It's certainly true that path changes should be at the end, but one of the
two will end up first, and the other one will break.

-- Scott