A couple points Dov: A lot of what you are talking about relates to distribution rather than build. Applications can distribute gtk however they want, I am talking about how one goes about building their application. The problem with the build system is that it is really hard to use it from windows. There are tons of windows developers out there who might want to make GTK applications and maybe they don't because setting up a build environment is a massive wall. Linking to the package provided by Tor would be fine except it uses a different c runtime and thus doesn't work. One shouldn't have to configure the universe and learn entirely new build systems to use GTK David: Yes, you pretty much captured my reasoning. John: I am talking about removing the struggle for developers using msvc (or the intel compile for that matter), while it's cool that you have a system that works for you I would be willing to bet it took a long time to get set up correctly. As to scriptability, the msbuild stuff (available for c projects from msvc 10 onwards) is pretty slick. And yes I can relate to why someone would statically link the whole of gtk into their application. To sum up. To be honest I am not a windows person either, I just write write software for the oil and gas industry and about 0% of them use linux, bsd or anything like it. I want to be able to squeeze open source software into that environment. So how this is going to work is similar to how openbsd works with xenocara. Pick and choose the components which work together, send patches upstream to those that don't. Common global include directory for public dependancy headers. Each dependancy with its own msbuild project. By the way, here is the kb article regarding the c runtime redistribution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326922 I am putting together a little spec explain how it will work in detail which should be available soon enough. Anyways, I want to re-iterate that I am scratching my own itch, if you find that you aren't itchy in the same way as me that's cool. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
