Re: [Audacity-devel] FFmpeg on Windows

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Vaughan Johnson wrote:
> Leland wrote:
>    
>> ...
>> That, btw, is something that will happen if we have ppl put Audacity in
>> their path.  They will get whatever version of the libraries we distribute
>> when they're really supposed to be using the system32 version or what ever.
>>
>>
>>      
>
> I didn't think that was under discussion. To what purpose?
>
> My opinion is that we should put the MSVC runtimes in the system folder
> (already in the PATH, so Audacity will find them) and the wxWidgets DLLs
> either there, or in the Audacity folder (assuming few other apps will
> want them). And for any of them, if they're going to replace an existing
> version (more likely with the MSVC runtimes), check the version/date and
> ask the user.
>
>    
mkvmerge stores wx dlls insde it's own application directory and doesn't 
touches the system32. That's just an example.

And we do not really need ppl to put Audacity in PATH (where did you got 
that idea?).