Shipping VB-runtime?

[Robert Maier]

Hello,

I habe written an application with VB5. In order to keep the package small, I ship the app without the VB-runtime dll's. As far as I know, Win95 and 98 are delivered with a VB5 runtime nowadays, so that the risk, I am taking is, that on old Win95 installations my program might not run. I am not definite about this, so I hope someone in this forum could give me an advice on this.

How about applications written in VB6? I think, that such applications must be shipped with the runtime, as it can not be expected, that this version of a runtime is already on a system. Any advice/oppinions on that?

Thanks

Robert

[Cakkie]

Shipping your runtimes with teh program makes a small program a HUGH installation package. However, you can always include a readme-file in your zip. In this file, just tell them that the vbruntimes are not included, and if they want them, they can download them from some mayor sites like microsoft.com or tucows.com. This way you can reduce the package size. If you ship your program on CD, you probably won't have to worry about some megs more or less.
Also, when NOT shipping the runtimes, the users have the possibility when they haven't got them, to get them. Be sure to put this info in your readme, because if you don't, a user might just not know what to do with a message like 'Cannot find msvb60.dll'

Tom Cannaerts
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