Re: What about official GTK+ installer for win32?

["Dominic Lachowicz" <domlachowicz gmail com>]

I think that the situation is much better than people here are making
it out to be. Or, at least that's been my experience.

I have Gaim, Gimp, Gnumeric, Glade-3, Workrave, gQview, and Xchat all
using the same GTK+ runtime on WinXP, and they all work flawlessly. As
far as I know, nothing gets installed into system/system32 - GTK+ gets
installed into its own prefix, sets some registry keys, and things
subsequently "just work".

With this approach, Win32 application developers can focus on shipping
their own software and not worry about shipping a messy dependency. If
GTK+'s installation was more like QT (i.e. you can link in a static
qt.lib to your program or ship qt.dll and be done with it), I might
have a different opinion.

Best,
Dom

On 10/26/06, Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote:
> Michael Lawrence writes:
>  > Modular systems are simply easier to maintain.
>
> When said modules are maintained by people who have never heard of
> each others, and with different ideas what the modular system is?
>
>  > I feel that a sophisticated package management system for Windows is a must
>  > for open-source to become mainstream on Windows.
>
> Well, *some* open-source software is quite mainstream on Windows
> already, like Firefox. And you don't see Firefox attempting to "share"
> installations of stuff like libjpeg, libpng, zlib etc DLLs, even
> though they for sure use them. They just build them in.
>
>  > Of course, the construction and maintenance of such a system would
>  > be a monumental task and far beyond the scope of GTK+.
>
> Indeed. Not to mention the clout required to convince other
> developers/maintainers then to use such a system.
>
> I really wish Microsoft would come up with a package management system
> for 3rd-party software on Windows... Windows Installer technology is
> monumentally powerful and complex, but it answers the wrong question,
> I think.
>
> --tml
>
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