Re: DLL hell - Glade killed my applications

"clivel_bundu <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:50:17 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Tor,

> No it won't, unless you have a badly written installer, as I said
> above.
> 
>  > There seems to be numberous GTK runtime installers floating
around,
>  > is it possible to have one "official" installer, which can be
>  > downloaded or linked from www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/?
> 
> Nope. The closest you will get to "official" from me is the
zipfiles,
> I don't want to tinker with installers.
> 
>  > I also do not think that it is a good idea for the dll's to be
>  > installed to the Windows\system32 directory, 
> 
> Definitely not, that's very disturbing behaviour. Yes, it might have
> been common many years ago, but shouldn't happen any more.
> 

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately the application I installed, is
only a few months old (Sept 2002), and it does have a bad installer.
By installing this application, I effectively broke all other GTK apps
 on my system. This does not give a good impression of GTK for the
casual user.
I am not suggesting that you create the installer, you do more than
enough to keep the Win32 port of GKT going, instead I was suggesting
that perhaps you could have a link to an official or semi-official
installation, I like what has been done at:
http://www.dropline.net/gtk/support.html, I have not tried any ofthe
other installers, but they may be as good or better.
Thanks,
Clive