Re: Building and packaging for Windows

["Pavel A. da Mek" <a da_mek0 ufoni cz>]

> > GTK is usually already installed with GIMP;
>
> Presumably not everyone is interested in installing GIMP just to get a
> copy of GTK+.

Is there a better choice of bitmap graphic editor than GIMP?
(I am just curious, not starting flamewar :-)
Of course, there may be some people who are not at all interested in image 
editing,
but it seems to me that this is a basic tool, alike vector editor (my choice 
is Inscape) and text editor (my choice is Notepad++).

> > if not, the packages are on
> > http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/old.html
>
> That "old" should tell you that the versions there are already
> obsolete, and will become increasingly so.

The old versions are good enough for my purposes.

I do not use features newer than 2.6.10 because I got the impression that it 
is not possible to run the new versions also on Win98. Or am I wrong?

Also I suppose that it is not possible to write applications which would in 
run-time decide, depending on GTK version, whether they can call new 
functions or not. It is so?

> Nowadays the GIMP installer
> bundles the GTK+ runtime and dependencies, so it is not possible to
> find an installer for just a fresh GTK+ from the gimp-win site.

That is the reason why I use the old versions.

> The main, some may even say "official", distribution for prebuilt
> binaries of each version of GTK+ and dependencies is on ftp.gnome.org.
> (In the form of zip archives, from which it should be a small matter
> of scripting to construct installers if one likes.)

I only thougt that for those like me, with less skill and time,
it would be helpful to know that there is also the quick and easy way with 
the old packages.

     P.A.