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Author steve.dower
Recipients paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2018-01-06.23:59:01
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There's enough instability due to using the proper UCRT installer (e.g. issue25546, issue25954, also others not reported on bpo) and good enough install base that we can simplify things by just installing it locally on machines that require it.

This may also require updating venv (though I think we're fine) and virtualenv (I'll ping).

My proposal is to bundle the UCRT redistributable DLLs into their own MSI and install them alongside the main executable when required. If a user later installs it properly, the up-to-date version will be used instead. This should be good enough to cover people still on Windows 7/8, and will also reduce the installer size slightly (though at the cost of potentially breaking non-standard virtual environments or entrypoint stubs that link to the CRT dynamically).
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2018-01-06 23:59:01steve.dowersetrecipients: + steve.dower, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware
2018-01-06 23:59:01steve.dowersetmessageid: <1515283141.58.0.467229070634.issue32507@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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