Re: 0.95-pre1 uploaded

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 14.02.2006 19:05, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:32 +0200, Steffen Macke wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > the Dia for Windows 0.95-pre1 installer is available from
> >
> > http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Please install the GTK+ Runtime Environment from
> > gimp-win.sourceforge.net first.
>You are recommending to install gtk+-2.8.x. Does this mean you have
*built* Dia against gtk+-2.8 ?
If so this is definitely the end of Dia on win9x as gtk+-2.8 does not
run there anymore. [ Dia will compile just fine against gt+-2.6 and
*may* run on win9x with that. ALso there will be the option to use
gtk+-2.8 with the same compile of Dia as Gtk+ has pretty strong binary
compatibility guarantees. ]

> Not knowing first thing about Win32 installation of GTK stuff, is this
> new separation an effect of the rewrite, of GTK developments, or what?
Although I'm not using any of the Gtk+ run-time environments (is there
a difference between the versions from http://gimp-win.sf.net and 
http://gladewin32.sf.net/ ?) they will allow a Dia users to update Dia's
dependencies if there is some bug in there.

Bundling Gtk+ with Dia would give a little more simple Dia install but
even I have sometimes problems to diagnose issues resulting from an 
included Gtk+ vs. some new installed Gtk+ version (IIRC the all inclusive
Gtk+ from Gnumeric was causing them.)

> It would be preferable to have just one thing to install, but is it
> practical/feasible to do that?
I tend to disagree, see above.

> > The installer is a complete rewrite, one of the major new features is
> > that the installer will only uninstall the files actually installed
> > (Using uninstall.log).
>
> Thank you, Steffen!  I hope this makes life easier for Win32 people.
Thank you, Steffen!

        Hans

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