Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-12 Thread Javier Jardón
2010/4/10 Nader Morshed : > > I'm wondering what the status is for 2.18/2.20 compatibility with Windows and > if I should bundle it with my project, through modifying the gtk-win > project's NSIS file, or if there are issues that still need to be worked out. I think the most imporant bugs are th

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-12 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 09:51 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > Would filing tickets of the issues that arise generate a response? > > Filing tickets (bug reports in bugzilla.gnome.org) for individual > clearly separate issues (that don't have bug reports already) is > always good, This is essential.

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> I guess one last question on this, can I expect that my program will either > work or crash on start up if the dependencies are or are not there? Or is > there the possibility that it may crash further into its process if it > reaches a point where it does not have access to the functions it n

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-11 Thread Nader Morshed
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:51:28 +0300 Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > I'd been under the impression, just from the other projects I had seen, > > that windows gtk programs were expected to use > > a shared runtime install, > > That depends on who you ask... My current opinion is that it is best > if each

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-11 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: The most likely end result (which, of course, to some extent is already happening) will be just competing projects, each saying "we are the way to do Open Source package management on Windows", with each such project having some pet feature that people

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-10 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> I'd been under the impression, just from the other projects I had seen, that > windows gtk programs were expected to use > a shared runtime install, That depends on who you ask... My current opinion is that it is best if each end-user installer for an application, or set of applications, from t

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-10 Thread Nader Morshed
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:50:51 +0300 Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > and if I should bundle it with my project, through modifying the gtk-win > > project's NSIS file, or if there are issues that still need to be worked > > out. > > Why not ask the "gtk-win project"? This is not a mailing list related >

Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-10 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> and if I should bundle it with my project, through modifying the gtk-win > project's NSIS file, or if there are issues that still need to be worked out. Why not ask the "gtk-win project"? This is not a mailing list related to that project. Or is it? Or why not just try the binaries from http:/

GTK 2.20 for Windows

2010-04-10 Thread Nader Morshed
I was looking around for a packaged version of GTK+ 2.20 the put with my project and I noticed that the gtk-win project (http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/) only had up to version 2.16.x. When I asked the project manager, Alexander Shaduri about it, he mentioned that the 2.18 branch had not been p