On Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 17:14:53, Philip Allison wrote: > OK, so I admit to having not thought very hard about this (did you > guess? ;) ), but it is currently *very* difficult to package apps > which use GTK+ well for Windows. In my experience, you either end up > hand-picking the parts of it you need and bundling them in your own > app's installer (which instantly bloats what might be only several > hundred kilobytes of installer to 10MB+, unless I'm doing it wrong), > or you depend on having the "GTK+ Runtime" installed, which is fine > for those that do but an even bigger download for those that don't. > To put it shortly, it's a mess, and sorting it out would be a big > enabler to porting all sorts of things (which either aren't currently > ported, or are ported but with installers that suck).
Some GTK+ developers had the idea to provide a MSI installer or merge module for a while now, but nothing has surfaced yet - however given that there's about 1.5 people maintaining the Windows GTK+ port currently, this is understandable (there have been quite a few regressions since GTK+ 2.18 has been released). -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value. -- Murphy's Constant _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
