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>>Craig;
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>>Creating a new distribution is not difficult but installing in on customers machines can be a nightmare, unless you have one customer. :)
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>>A few years ago I worked at a company which had hundreds of clients all over the country - from coast to coast. Now that was fun!
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>>Tom
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>I understand that. My suggestion is to not ship the updated runtimes unless your application is experiencing one of the bugs that was fixed. I know that for our customers, we'll ship the new runtimes with the next scheduled product update.

Craig;

Along the line of delivering a new product to a client, I suggest they not only back up (you know how that goes with some clients – “What is a backup”?) but have a directory with sub directories for each version of an exe and required files with version number or date to identify it. If the latest version does not work for whatever reason they can go back to the previous version. Most of my clients agree with this and some do not. That is a business decision, but with my Aero Space background I do believe in “redundant systems”!

Tom