Re: Fwd: Plans for GTK+ Bundles for win32 and win64?

[dieterv <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:12:09 +1200, John Stowers wrote:
> > It takes a "build description" file like:
> >
> > https://github.com/dieterv/pygtk-installer/blob/master/wix/2.24.0.win32.xml
> > downloads required files, extracts them, applies transformations if
> > requested,
> > repacks, etc until finally a .msi is produced.
> >
> > It is currently capable of packaging zips from ftp.gnome.org and 
> > also
> > Python
> > distutils generated .msi files (for PyCairo, PyGTK, PyGObject, etc).
> > Cleaning this up and making it more generic and easier to use is
> > something
> > I've been wanting to do for a long time now...
>
> Cool!
>
> note: these are my uninformed ideas, I have not actually seen the
> implementation for the methods you describe...
>
> I think JHBuild is *almost* able to do this itself. If the binary/zip
> module type patch was applied to JHbuild then I think this would not 
> be
> too much work to complete.

Wasn't the binary/zip module type patch rejected some time ago? Or 
maybe
not rejected perse, maybe there was just a heated discussion around
it, I don't remember. Anyway, personally, I'd prefer to have separate
a) build tool and b) packaging tool. The intermediate format doesn't
matter much (zip, msi, rpm, ...).

> AIUI JHbuild now tracks installed files and can create a manifest. 
> This
> manifest + JHbuild supporting binary/zip module types would give you 
> all
> the meta information to write msi/wix/nsi installers.

Looks like I have some studying to do :)

Thanks!
Dieter