Re: [pygtk] Installation problems win32

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

John Ehresman <jpe wingide com> writes:

> Sven Neumann wrote:
> > So you are seriously suggesting that each and every GTK+ application
> > on Win32 comes with an installer that includes it's own copy of GTK+?
> 
> Yes I am.  Consider it from a user's point of view: I hear about the
> new application which might help me, so I go to the website and
> download the installer.  When I click on the installer, it tells me I
> need to go off to another site and download something called a gtk+
> runtime.  At this point, there's a decent chance that I'll lose
> interest and go find something else to do.

So you prefer that people will get the impression that GTK+ apps are
large on disk space and RAM usage? I don't think that's desirable and
I also don't think that installing two packages (for the first GTK+
app, just one for every other) is asked too much.


Sven