Re: [pygtk] Installation problems win32

[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko async com br>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:20:32AM -0400, John Ehresman wrote:
> My $.02 is that what we need is not necessarily an official 
> distribution, but rather distributions that don't assume or try to be 
> the only distribution on the machine (I haven't used any of the 
> distributions, so I'm not commenting on any in particular).  This means 
> nothing put in the windows or system directory, no changes to the global 
> path, and any registry keys created should be unique to the 
> distribution.  Applications that then want to work with the distribution 
> would look for the specific distribution and use it.

Well, this places a lot of burden on the application developer, who then
needs to keep track of which runtimes are kept up to date and which ones
are well distributed. It also forces him to justify and support the N
[potentially incompatible] distributions that are out there, because
users usually don't know or care the runtime is broken, "the app just
doesn't work!" Also, requiring every GTK+/PyGTK application user to
download and install Yet Another Distribution is harsh.

Standardization would really help us here; it's hurting win32 adoption
of GTK+. At FISL, the leading Free Software forum in Brazil, I was
surprised at how many people rejected the GTK+/PyGTK development option
(in favor of WxFoo or Qt) simply because they didn't think their apps
would run on Windows. I swore it did, and that it worked well, but
whoever runs into problems with the runtime is going to call me out for
it, and with good reason.

Take care,
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