> yes, i suppose i could adopt this policy for my software tool and user > base (seismologists). Hmm. It seems we are talking about apples and oranges here. The original poster, as far as I could understand, is a *programmer* and wanted to set up a *development* environment for building GTK+-using applications. These seismologists you talk about, on the other hand, presumably are *users* and they need to install some GTK+-using application. Not build it. (Or am I missing something?) These are two entirely separate use cases. Unfortunately in discussion about GTK+ installers and environments for Windows they often get confused, and people might even start a paragraph talking about one but end it talking about the other. The gtk+ bundle that was mentioned and the zip archives at ftp.gnome.org are squarely aimed at the *programmer* audience. It is the programmer's or application packagers job then to pick out the subset of files originating from the bundle or from zip archives that is needed on the actual end-user systems when he is packaging up his application into some kind of installer. --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
