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[Philip Allison <mangobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GTK+, GTK+, GTK+ and.. um.. GTK+.

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).

Regards,
Phil