On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:15:14PM +0200, Dieter Verfaillie wrote: > What's going to be accepted as the "official" builds for GTK+ 3, I > have no idea. > > Now, after all this discussing about build systems and what-not, my > question still stands: is there interest in keeping the binaries > on www.gtk.org and ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/ up to date > for the remainder of GTK+-2.X's useful life? Speaking as an application developer, I’m more interested in ready–to–deploy binaries for GTK+ 3.0. A nice bundle like the one Tor provided for GTK+ 2.X would be a neat plus. Until that condition is met, I’m not going to port my applications to GTK+ 3.0, which I would really love to do, just because I need them to run on Windows. Now, my applications are not that interesting. One of them is currently used by a small company to handle part of its workflow but, apart from that, nobody would probably miss them. Porting to GTK+ 3.0 would not give many benefits, since that one application is fairly complete and stable, and can probably serve the user’s needs for years to come. My only fear is that other application developers, which have built much more useful and unique applications using GTK+ 2.X over the years, are now in the same situation as I am: very willing to port their code to GTK+ 3.0, if only to better integrate in the beautiful GNOME 3 desktop, but unable to do so until GTK+ 3.0 is properly running and easy to deploy on win32 as well. I don’t care for OS X myself, but it’s easy to imagine other developers having the same needs with respect to that platform. So I very much welcome the ones who, unlike me, have both the time and the expertise needed to advance the status of GTK+ on win32; but I think they should put less effort in keeping GTK+ 2.X alive and more effort in making GTK+ 3.0 on win32 a viable solution. Just my 0.2€ ;) -- Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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