Re: Install GTK on windows using no official installers

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:19:23PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> 
> Why should a *GTK+* installer include gtkglext, libglade and libxml2?

Spotted the `Glade' in `GladeWin32'?

> Those are not part of GTK+. OK, so maybe some specific apps uses them
> in addition to, or on top of, GTK+. But then it's wrong to call it a
> GTK+ installer, it is more an installer for the inclusive set of
> dependencies of *that* application.
> 
> As a rhetoric question, why then just these additional libs?

Because I want these (eh, I'm answering a rhetorical
question...).

> Some
> other app might also need whatever other libraries from the GNOME
> stack, like libart_lgpl, libIDL, ORBit2, gtkhtml, whatever.

Whereas I don't care about these.

Now, originally I wrote two paragraphs here why the libs
from the second set are less likely to be used (hint: not
all Gtk+ apps target GNOME).  However, why is irrelevant, if
enough people answer your question the same way as I did,
nothing else matters.

Yeti

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