Re: [Demexp-dev] Re: win32 and GTK

[David MENTRE]

Hello Christophe,

GISQUET Christophe <address@hidden> writes:

> I had a discussion with ocaml-gettext author where he underlined how
> very picky the softwares were with the locale, for instance iso8859-1
> vs. iso-8859-1. Maybe you could run LANG=fr ./demexp-gtk2-client

address@hidden:~/pub/demexp/hg/work$ LANG=fr ./gtk2-clnt/demexp-gtk2-client 
--gettext-dir ~/pub/demexp/hg/work/build/share/locale/
Autotests compiled.
Fatal error: exception Failure("setlocale(invalid localization)")

I'm supposed to be the author of this pile of code! :-/

> The later point begs for the question: should we include libglade dll
> within demexp package or should we use a GTK installer providing it? I
> think the former solution is better because we can skip altogether the
> GTK installation when it is detected.

Ok. 

> So the demexp installer would do those steps:
> - detect GTK and deduce whether to install it; this is an incomplete
> decision, as it should also find if it is recent enough, and propose to
> update/uninstall it

Is it possible to use a demexp specific GTK and install a demexp needed
libraries/DLL into a sub-directory of demexp install directory? The main
idea for such a setup would be to disturb as less as possible user's
setting and removing demexp would equals to wiping the demexp install
dir. What do you think of it?

> - display what software will be installed; those would be unmodifiable
> check boxes showing what is going to be installed: demexp always ticked,
> and GTK box ticked depending on previous result

ok.

> - if GTK is to be installed, extract the setup to demexp install folder,
> then run this setup; canceling the GTK setup should cancel the demexp
> setup

Nice.

Except above question, that seems quite nice to me.

Best wishes,
d.
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