Michael Torrie writes: > In particular, you want: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gtk%2B-2.8.9-setup-1.zip? > download Note that the current GTK+ version is 2.8.17, though. There has been many bug fixes since 2.8.9. > It is preferred, I think, to look for GTK in the standard place (de > facto standard), C:\Program Files\Common files\GTK\2.0\bin. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a standard place. Many (most?) Windows machines run a localized version of Windows and don't even have any Program Files\Common Files folder. Does the GTK+ installer cope with localized names for it? Also, for developers who use "Unix" style tools, Makefiles, etc, using paths with spaces in them just cause unnecessary pain. > This is what I personally do, as does the Gimp, and GAIM. This way > all gtk apps can share a common runtime. Except that it is well known that GAIM requires version 2.6 of GTK+ (actually of GLib) and doesn't work with 2.8. In fact, I would say that the recommended practice is to bundle all of GTK+ with each application as distributed to end-users. Only if one knows very well what one is doing (builds the applications oneself, understands how to manipulate PATH, etc) should one try to share the same GTK+ runtime among separately distributed applications. (Yes, this is very different from Linux. But then, Linux distributions have intelligent package management systems that track package versions and dependencies.) When using unofficial GTK+ runtime distributions, one should check whether they include the message catalogs (localizations). Some distributions might leave them out to save space. The unaware might then think that GTK+ isn't localized, when in fact the localization effort to *many* languages is one of the things that GTK+ (and many related Open Source software projects) can be very proud of. "Just use English" is not an answer. --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
