> Hi all,
>
> I sent out a message about this before, but for reasons
> beyond my control, I could not continue that thread.
>
> Anyway, not only does the installer blow away libpq.dll, it
> also removes all the Open SSL dlls, this is even more
> troubling because LOTS of other apps depend on OpenSSL.
>
> This morning when I got to work I downloaded beta3 and
> uninstalled 8.03, then installed it (beta3) and of course did
> not select PG Admin III, then did a search for libpq.dll and
> it was gone, not sure if uninstalling 8.03 got rid of it or
> if installing 8.1 did the deed.
> I then went ahead and used a remote control app that uses
> open SSL, then I get "Can't load libeay32.dll"
>
> So in conclusion either the installer or uninstaller is
> blowing away system DLLS without even asking me if I want to
> keep them, this is very bad behavior.
The uninstall will indeed remove the files. The install will not touch
them.
OpenSSL libraries should never have gone in SYSTEM32, because they
contain no versioning information. If they did, they could be dealt
with in a better way in the installer.
Right now we're more or less at the mercy of Windows Instlaler, which
will remove the files that it originally installed unless someone else
registered in the MSI database that they were using it.
Your solution to this is to copy the openssl DLL files to each
applications binary directory. It may suck, but that's how you'll have
to do it :(
//Magnus