[pygtk] Pygtk.org website IRC Meeting

[Yuri Pimenov]

Imho, good wiki page would be enough. This is OSS world, if someone looks for
"one click app" it is better to stick with builder, delphi etc.

On 25/12/06, Peter Morgan <pm �� daffodil.uk.com> wrote:
> Yes need to check that out, however I meant as a developer environment
> for new coders to pygtk.
>
> regards
>
> Pete
>
> Yuri Pimenov wrote:
> > On 25/12/06, Peter Morgan <pm �� daffodil.uk.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >>  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