Re: [pygtk] Installation problems win32

[John Ehresman <jpe wingide com>]

Cedric Gustin wrote:
> you can py2exe your pygtk application but including the all GTK+ runtime 
> with your application is overkill IMHO (the minimal distribution does 
> not only include a few DLLs but also some configurations files (in the 
> etc subdir) and locales.

The minimal distribution that we use is 9.5 MB on disk.  With disk sizes 
measured in the GB's these days, I don't think this is huge.  What is 
still worth worrying about is the size of the code pages when the 
program is running.

> This of course implies that this GTK+ distribution is stable enough so 
> that developers don't feel the need of embedding their own "patched" 
> gtk+ runtime in their application installer.

This is part of the issue -- gtk on Windows is not as mature as on 
Linux.  Because of this, there is likely to more need to distribute 
different versions.

Cheers,

John