Re: [PHP-GTK] PHP-GTK Standalone Kit

Elizabeth Smith wrote:
> I have to second this "I have a bad feeling about this" - first of all 
> how many windows installers for php-gtk2 do we need?  

I agree. My opinion is that many developers are not interested in 
php-gtk because php-gtk scripts are not easy to install. Most users want 
to see their application up and running right after a double click on 
the setup file. My project is just a try, not the ultimate solution.

> It would be far better to do an installer the way Pidgin or other 
> software does, where needed requirements are detected, and then 
> optionally downloaded and installed, all from your application 
> install. (This is how  Pidgin handles Aspell and Gtk - very cool trick)

Many things can be done with NSIS, just tell me what to do and I'll try 
to do that.

> Just to reiterate, a standard Gtk library install is over 13 MB on 
> windows - that's without extensions, and without PHP or php extensions...

If you compile and run the demo script, you'll see a window saying 
"You've just installed a 40MB large HELLO WORLD !" ... but some things 
can still be done, like

1) remove unneeded extensions
2) compress php and gtk dlls with UPX

so that PHP *and* GTK will be about 13 MB. Still not small, but quite 
acceptable.

I just want to help.

Marco