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

[dieterv <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 10:08:32 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Dieter Verfaillie
> <dieterv optionexplicit be> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:18:41 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> > Maybe it would be a good idea to stop insisting our
> > beloved GNOME platform should only have 1 blessed set
> > of binaries for Windows altogether and embrace the
> > diversity that has been created. All these options
> > are there for a reason. All of them. At the end of
> > the day, Free Software development and GNOME are all
> > about choice, right?
>
> I agree with you here - and I haven't seen anyone insisting 
> otherwise,
> it's more a case of time to make it happen. Qt for example provides a
> separate SDK for MSVC and for mingw. A specific MSVC version could be
> targetted to allow use of the MSVCRT9.DLL. Although more effort is
> needed to do this, it seems to be available, and it's probably a good
> thing not to have the MSVC import libs generated by an uninterested
> mingw developer or vice versa.

Indeed :)

> > What do you think? Can we try and collaborate on such a
> > text on live.gnome.org and/or windows-devel-list or something?
>
> I guess windows-devel-list is a good place :) My personal view is 
> that
> your list is daunting for a basic "how to use Gtk+" page - we should
> just suggest mingw and MSVC.

Yeah, probably better to point people to a basic overview and link
to an "advanced" list like above from there.

> For more advanced systems like Cygwin we
> don't need to provide binaries (Gtk+ should be available in their
> package repositories) so the most we really need to do is point users
> towards them.

Agreed.

mvg,
Dieter