On 05/03/2016 06:12 PM, Dave Howorth wrote: > On 2016-05-03 16:57, Florian Pelz wrote: >> I'd like to have one standard GTK+ installer for the GTK+ DLLs etc. that >> can be downloaded and installed from other installers, so there is just >> one GTK+ installed on Windows instead of one copy of perhaps different >> versions of GTK+ for each application. > > That's been a longstanding desire of many people. The other side of the > argument of course is that all the applications have to be compatible > with that particular version of the libraries, which has sometimes > proven to be problematic even when the libraries ship with Windows. > Expecting every application to be updated every time there is a library > update is not realistic. It's not like a linux distro where the distro > can update and recompile all the dependencies itself. >
That's a good argument, but those who don't want to risk breakage due to incompatibilities could still bundle it the old-fashioned way. Of course, maybe it's too much effort and most people prefer stability on Windows. I'm not going to take the time, so thank you for explaining the reasons. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
