Re: gtkmm 2.18 Windows installer?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:44 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:14 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > > Is anyone keen on a Windows installer for gtkmm 2.18? There is no GTK+
> > > bundle yet, and Tor Lillqvist, the GTK+ Win32 maintainer, says this is
> > > because GTK+ 2.18 is still quite buggy on Windows (e.g. does not support
> > > the native Windows theme). As there are invidual zip packages for GTK+
> > > 2.18 I can still create an installer if people think we/they need one. I
> > > think it's not too useful at the moment.
> > 
> > If GTK+ 2.18 is not good enough on Windows then I don't see much point
> > in a gtkmm 2.18 on Windows. Unless you just want to get more attention
> > for that bug. What's the bug URL?
> 
> This is for the theme not working:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598299
> 
> Otherwise gtk-demo seems to work well, though others have reported that
> their applications behave badly with GTK+ 2.18.

But without filing bugs?

It sounds like a gtkmm 2.18 installer would indeed be useful, and it
sounds like Tor should be encouraged to do a GTK+ installer. That would
mean that we all had the same stuff to work with, so we could get some
real information about those bugs.

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