About using msys2 binaries instead of pygobject-win32: I'm running meld 
checkout with mingw64 for several months by now.
It contains newer gtk and so shortcuts problems with non-english keyboards 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues/129 is solved (which is great!)

But unfortunately it has a huge problem: nearly 1 of 10 invocations hangs on 
startup. This is very annoying. I just reported and crosslinked this as 
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/3510 and 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues/174

Apart from this I had several crashes, but they are extremely rare (1 per month 
with intensive every-day use, like 1 from 1000 usages leads to crash).

> Sorry, I accidentally replied instead of reply all.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Keegan Witt <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Update Windows binaries
> To: <[email protected]>
> 
> There's a discussion about Windows builds here: 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788570. From what I can tell, the 
> slow startup problem has been fixed with that artifact 
> (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kaiw/meld/build/artifacts).
> 
> Kai, do you want to use that pipeline to do an official binary? Or do you 
> want to move to Mysys2 first?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:02 PM Ngosang Kplan Strirv <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I’m really happy using this software in Linux but the Windows versión is a 
>> mess.
>>
>> * Current binaries are outdated
>> * Really slow start. About 2 minutes in my laptop
>> * Weird window theme
>>
>> Can I help in any way?
>>
>> Regards
>>
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