Re: Outdated win32 bundle

[anatoly techtonik <techtonik gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> The current stance of everyone involved in the Windows backend for
> GLib and GTK+ is to stop advertising binary builds for Windows — as we
> don't do that for any other platform, and nobody sticks around long
> enough to keep doing that or to set up a continuous integration build
> for GTK.

Stop advertising == stop supporting?

> Developers using the G* core platform libraries on Windows are
> strongly encouraged to use the MSYS2 distribution:
>
>   https://msys2.github.io/

Like Git? Ship 200Mb of "additional value" on top? Just for comparison
Mercurial installation is 37Mb compared with 267Mb of Git. And that for
every GTK application?

> This will provide you with pre-built packages that are known to work
> and maintained. It also allows you to build your own packages on top
> of it, and create an installer from the result.

Can GTK be cross-compiled for Windows?

> What the GTK team would love, on the other hand, is somebody putting
> the effort in setting up and maintaining a continuous integration
> service — similar to https://build.gnome.org — for Windows builds.
> This way we would be able to catch build regressions after every
> commit, without relying on the application developers to file bugs.

http://www.appveyor.com/ if using closed source service is okay.

> If you want to coordinate this effort, you can use the gtk-devel-list
> mailing list, and possibly join IRC to talk with the GTK developers
> and the gnome.org system administrators, in order to get a CI build
> going on the gnome.org servers.