Re: [gtkmm] Release : gtkmm-2.2.1 for win32

[Cedric Gustin <cedric gustin swing be>]

At 04:35 PM 3/17/2003 -0600, Alexander Yukhimets wrote:
> 1) It is not possible to uncheck the instllation of development
> packages. Even more, I would suggest to have them (and documentation
> with examples) to be unchecked by default: developers would know what
> they want to install anyway, whereas end-users would be able to install just
> the runtime simply by accepting defaults. To follow this logic, a separate
> installers for runtime and development packages would be even better
> because that would reduce the download time for users who wishes just
> to install the runtime to make some application work.

It's actually a feature I added to this version of the installer. Usually, 
when you want the developer package, you also want the runtime environment 
to test your program ! And yes, I could split the installer into two parts, 
one for the runtime and the second for the developer packages. But then, 
should I have a third one for the documentation and a fourth for the gtkmm 
demo ? I know bandwidth is precious for some of you on modem access, but 
then you can always download the individual files (tar.gz). I was planning 
anyway to split gtkmm-2.2.x-mingw32.tar.gz into three parts : runtime, 
developer and documentation.

> 2) Even though I selected c:/gtk as my installation directory,
> the runtime packages were still unpacked in c:/Program\ files/Common...
> I find it convenient to install both gtk+ and gtkmm under c:/gtk
> this way only c:/gtk/bin needs to be added to the path.
> (Actually, c:/gtk/lib too at the moment but I will try to convince
>  Todd Kulesza to move dlls to bin/ - this is actually the default for
>  latest cygwin libtool)

I hate the old windows way of installing your files anywhere you want, 
that's why the installer requires admin rights. Runtime environment belongs 
to Common Files and packages/programs to Program Files. Writing to the 
registry should be done by admin people only.
If you don't like it or want to install gtkmm as a limited user, then I 
would strongly recommend you to use the tar.gz files.

Except of course if I get tons of emails from people complaining about this...

Cedric

P.S. : I have had too many problems related to admin rights/write 
access/All Users start menu  on WinXP Pro that now I'm very conservative 
about this security and standard directories stuff.