Re: Makeing librsvg work (bizp2.dll missing)

[Hartmut Goebel <h goebel goebel-consult de>]

Tor Lillqvist schrieb:
> > That sounds straight forward enough.  And a hell of a lot better than the current situation.
>
> By all means, go ahead then and create a project aiming at this, and
> convince all distributors of installers for GTK+-using software to
> cooperate with you.

This is a killer phrase!

I would prefer to include an existing GTK installer for my software, but
there is no one I can rely on (see my other posting the last week). If
there is no official installer provided by the GTK project, everybody
has to bundle GTK by himself.

> It is, unfortunately, so that new versions of GLib, Pango or GTK+
> often introduce subtle regressions especially on Windows. (On Unix /
> X11 this is much less of a problem.) Some of these regressions then
> might be especially troublesome for a particular application. Thus one
> application might want to stay with specifically GLib 2.16.6 (to pick
> an arbitrary example), while another application again requires new
> API in GLib 2.18. Etc.

I'm quite sure even Windows could handle several parallel GTK
installations ;-)

> > How hard would it be to provide a "GTK sub-installer"
>
> For which installer-writing technology? Windows Installer (a.k.a MSI)
> (perhaps with the WiX front-end), NSIS, InnoSetup, InstallShield?
> (Just to mention the best known (?).) Or something totally different,
> new and improved?

These are "only" four sub-installers. Not that much work for those who
are knowledgeable to write installer-scripts.

Please note: Your arguments are sheer technical ones. You are ignoring
the "marking" side. But for me, your arguments simply do not count,
since I simply want to *use* GTK for my application.  Currently this is
very, very tremulous (again see my other postings these weeks). I do not
want to build up a large infrastructure just to maintain the toolkit. I
want to improve my application! This pain has grown that big, that I
thing about moving to QT instead.

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