On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey;
On 11 June 2015 at 14:19, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <nacho.resa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the record following Emmanuele mail,
> you can find an example on how to create an installer
> for your application using msys2 here:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/win32
We really need to get a GTK-based installer, so you guys can stop
using the Competition. ;-)
heh, I definitely agree about that, there is the msitools project but it is not in msys2
and I did not have time yet to put it there.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/msitools
and I did not have time yet to put it there.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/msitools
Cheers.
Ciao,
Emmanuele.
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>> On 11 June 2015 at 13:44, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The current stance of everyone involved in the Windows backend for
>> >> GLib and GTK+ is to stop advertising binary builds for Windows — as we
>> >> don't do that for any other platform, and nobody sticks around long
>> >> enough to keep doing that or to set up a continuous integration build
>> >> for GTK.
>> >
>> > Stop advertising == stop supporting?
>>
>> If I wanted to say "stop supporting", I would have said that. Not that
>> we *ever* "supported" binary builds, on any platform. If you want
>> commercial support, you should contract somebody.
>>
>> Currently, we advertise ad hoc Windows builds on gtk.org; those are
>> out of date, and lack many of the bug fixes that went into GTK. This
>> situation is confusing for application developers, and makes the
>> project look bad. It also reflect badly on the great work that
>> developers have been doing in order to make GTK work well on Windows.
>>
>> On top of that, we don't offer binary builds for any other platform,
>> and instead rely on distributors — like Homebrew on Mac; the *BSD
>> ports; or the various Linux distributions — to provide binary builds
>> for them. Windows is an anomaly, mostly because there weren't
>> good/usable software distributions in the past. This has now changed,
>> and it's a good thing to ensure that developers on Windows get
>> reliable, up to date software.
>>
>> >> Developers using the G* core platform libraries on Windows are
>> >> strongly encouraged to use the MSYS2 distribution:
>> >>
>> >> https://msys2.github.io/
>> >
>> > Like Git? Ship 200Mb of "additional value" on top? Just for comparison
>> > Mercurial installation is 37Mb compared with 267Mb of Git. And that for
>> > every GTK application?
>>
>> MSYS2 is for developers, not for end users.
>>
>> You're supposed to set up the development enviroment on *your*
>> development machine(s); once you have built your application, you can
>> take your binary artefacts, including the DLLs you depend on, put them
>> into an installer, and let your users download the installer — which
>> is exactly what you should have done in the past, even with pre-built
>> DLLs. The intended change is for application developers to get
>> pre-built, up to date binaries using MSYS2, instead of downloading zip
>> files from gtk.org that we cannot reliably keep up to date.
>>
>> Telling your users to download your application; download DLLs from
>> gtk.org; shove them into some directory; and, finally, hope for the
>> best, was never a good software distribution mechanism.
>>
>> >> This will provide you with pre-built packages that are known to work
>> >> and maintained. It also allows you to build your own packages on top
>> >> of it, and create an installer from the result.
>> >
>> > Can GTK be cross-compiled for Windows?
>>
>> Yes, it can, and it routinely is.
>>
>> >> What the GTK team would love, on the other hand, is somebody putting
>> >> the effort in setting up and maintaining a continuous integration
>> >> service — similar to https://build.gnome.org — for Windows builds.
>> >> This way we would be able to catch build regressions after every
>> >> commit, without relying on the application developers to file bugs.
>> >
>> > http://www.appveyor.com/ if using closed source service is okay.
>>
>> No, it's really not — especially if it has to run on the gnome.org
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Emmanuele.
>>
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