[pygtk] Windows installer components

Timo timomlists at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 16:04:14 WST 2010


On 25-09-10 02:06, Mark Schafer wrote:
>  Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can indicate if we need any 
> of the optional packages that are not in the GTK "all-in-one" package. 
> E.g. pixman looks like it might be required ??
> If there are several - then we may need to make our own all-in-one :-(
> - not in the all-in-one bundles:
>      - pixman, gettext-runtime, pkg-config, winiconv, proxy-libintl, 
> GNU libiconv
As far as I know, I always used the GTK bundle without optional packages.

Cheers,
TImo

>
> On 9/24/2010 11:14 PM, John Stowers wrote:
>>> So for each version of python that we decided to support (and using
>>> python 2.6.5 in this example) the pygtk installer needs to install:
>>> - PyGObject
>>> - PyCairo
>> This sounds good, a worthwhile improvement would certainly be to include
>> all the necessary python installers together.
>>
>> So as far as my understanding goes, the installer would include the
>> others, and call them silently...?
>>
>> A full 'all in one' installer that also includes the gtk bundle could
>> then be handled at a later time.
>>
>> John
> I suppose a full all-in-one would be:
> - python 2.6.5
> - the all-in-one bundle from http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
> - PyGObject
> - PyCairo
>
> However - as most users will already have a version of Python - I 
> think just needing three installers would be OK
> To reduce it to two - maybe we could lobby for the existing 
> "all-in-one" to include the two pygtk installers...
>   but as that package currently contains no python bindings at all - 
> this is probably not likely.
>
> MarkS...
>
>
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