Re: Windows Builds of Meld

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 28 January 2018 at 01:40, Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru> wrote:
> Hi! Thanks for the feedback!
> The issue looks possible, since this package is already installed on many computers, so testing didn't 
> showed the problem.
>
> As a workaround you can try installing 32-bit "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)" 
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328

Historically at least, the reason this isn't bundled is that it wasn't
clear whether there were licensing issues with its distribution. I
haven't looked in to this for a long time, and a quick glance now
suggests this may no longer be an issue. I don't know whether the
license has been clarified, or the requirement for Visual Studio
licensing was removed, or... what.

cheers,
Kai