MS Windows packages and modularity

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

A while back some app developers who have need of GTK+ on MS 
Windows, yet whose apps use only a subset of the available 
image-loaders, requested that the build of the Windows packages be 
made modular (as it was in the old days).  That way, one can slim 
down the packaging of one's app, skipping the redundant loaders 
along with their third-party dependencies (e.g. libtiff and 
libjpeg).

This was done for a while (e.g. with the GTK 2.12.11 package), and 
I was grateful for that.

But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package 
( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html ) has reverted to a 
monolithic build, so that a gtk app won't start without having the 
tiff and jpeg libraries installed, even if they're never used.

Was there a compelling reason for this reversion?  Any chance of 
getting a modular build again?  Thanks.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University