Hi Paul, 2013/2/17 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> >> Unfortunately our efforts are severely impacted by the lack of official >> GTK+ >> installers for Windows and OS X and this uncertainty was a major reason >> which >> brought the Qt port alive. > > > I'm not speaking as a representative of the GTK project, but I will note > that as the lead developer of a large scale app that uses GTK to provide > portability to Linux, OS X and Windows, it is my judgement that you should > plan to bundle GTK within your application and not rely on it being On GNU/Linux distributions we rely on the package manager to provide the GTK libraries and it works perfectly. > installed separately. I can speak to this less on Windows, where I have less On Windows we need something we can safely bundle, a pre-built official GTK+ library set like we have for 2.28 at http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php . > understanding of things, but on OS X it simply makes a lot more sense to > cook up a .app bundle with everything your application needs, including GTK > and really seems to reflects Apple's intentions for 3rd party apps that rely > on additional 3rd party libraries. Wireshark already provide such bundles at https://wireshark.org/download.html thus the problem is only not having the GTK3 binaries we could put in the bundles. Cheers, Balint _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
