[pygtk] Pygtk.org website IRC Meeting

[Yuri Pimenov]

On 25/12/06, Peter Morgan <pm �� daffodil.uk.com> wrote:
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>  Also one last point is for windows users, they are the biggest market.
> Indeed I checked pygtk, then went for mono and gtk# and after 2 days,
> realised that the install to windows was going to be a nightmare and came
> back to pygtk ;-). I've even been thinking about creating a "Windows install
> pack" than installs python, gtk, pygtk, cairo.. the whole lot, just for my
> own deployments. It took me sometime to figure it out and as a newbie,
> getting my head around all the versions was confusing to say the least,
> particularly as a lot of the elements were on different other sites. Windows
> users expect to have an installer, that's one of the great things about
> vb.net. Maybe NSIS would be a good solution http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ ?

py2exe works perfectly with latest pygtk. Common pygtk app takes about
18mb when installed. UPX'ed binaries take two times less space.
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Yuri Pimenov