Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] EXTERNAL: Windows Installer for Gtk+3.6.2 and gtkmm-3.6.0
Hi Paul,
2013/2/17 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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
