[Pan-users] Alternate win32 installer proposal

[GISQUET Christophe]

Hello,

I've been too button-happy and accidentally removed the pan mails that were 
relevant to my subject, and therefore I am posting my matter to this new thread.

In a bug report [1], I propose an addition to have a cross-compilable setup 
(based on the NSIS GPL'ed software, tested under Debian) and the corresponding 
patch(es). An old installer is present at [2], but I currently have no time to 
update it and the corresponding patches.

This set of patches features interesting (I believe) stuff such as:
- gtkspell support, although this adds another dependency on aspell at runtime.
- custom fetching of aspell and language dictionaries from within the 
installer (inspired from the gaim installer)
- modification for win32 of the install goal so as to build the installer 
instead of installing files under $prefix.

I was expecting Darren to report whether he could build without too much 
difficulties, but as he hasn't shown up yet, I would like to ask if anyone 
making win32 builds from source would be so kind as to test these patches.

As I said, it was made for 0.108, but I have good hope it applies cleanly, 
albeit with some fuzz. On [3], I also provide some pre-compiled libraries (and 
with modified [butchered] source at their side) as required by the expected 
statical inclusion of pcre (i.e. no pcre3.dll alongside).

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351497
[2] http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/pan/pan-0.108-setup.exe
[3] http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/pan/

Best regards,
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Christophe GISQUET