Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:21 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:16 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:05 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 16:46 -0400, Philip Kovacs wrote:
> > > > > I am not a big fan of "installers" as they write to the registry.  I prefer 
> > > > > zip archives that have no such side-effects.
> > > > 
> > > > The gtkmm installer sets the GTKMM_BASEPATH environment variable that is
> > > > required for the MSVC property sheets (they set the include paths to
> > > > $(GTKMM_BASEPATH)\include\gtkmm-2.4 etc.). Simply using relative path
> > > > names doesn't seem to work.
> > > 
> > > Maybe it's worth mentioning (on the wiki page) that no registry settings
> > > (or other environment variables) are set by the installer, or anything
> > > else other than just putting files in directories.
> > 
> > That's actually not true. The installer sets indeed HKLM\Software\gtkmm
> > in the registry so that it finds previous versions when upgrading.
> 
> OK. Please document that on the wiki.

Done.

> As long as people know what (and how little) it does, that shouldn't
> disturb anybody.

It seems that we even can get rid of that registry setting, and use the
GTKMM_BASEPATH environment variable for the detection of previous
versions (and for the uninstaller). I don't know whether that's a good
idea generally, but I tested this locally, and it seems to work.

Armin