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[Jernej Simončič <jernej+s-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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).

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< Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ >

Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
       -- Murphy's Constant