Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:16 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:05 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 16:46 -0400, Philip Kovacs wrote:
> > > > I am not a big fan of "installers" as they write to the registry.  I prefer 
> > > > zip archives that have no such side-effects.
> > > 
> > > The gtkmm installer sets the GTKMM_BASEPATH environment variable that is
> > > required for the MSVC property sheets (they set the include paths to
> > > $(GTKMM_BASEPATH)\include\gtkmm-2.4 etc.). Simply using relative path
> > > names doesn't seem to work.
> > 
> > Maybe it's worth mentioning (on the wiki page) that no registry settings
> > (or other environment variables) are set by the installer, or anything
> > else other than just putting files in directories.
> 
> That's actually not true. The installer sets indeed HKLM\Software\gtkmm
> in the registry so that it finds previous versions when upgrading.

OK. Please document that on the wiki.

As long as people know what (and how little) it does, that shouldn't
disturb anybody.

> I only mentiond the GTKMM_BASEPATH variable to show that simple .zip
> files can't offer the same functionality as the installer (because the
> MSVC property sheets would not work).

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