Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-21 Thread jcupitt
2008/10/21 Vincent Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > speaking of that, as there are other Windows library, not related to gtk, > that may use libjpeg, tiff, png, etc..., woud it be possible to install them > in a drectory not specific to GTK (like in Program Files/Common > Files/generic, or something li

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-21 Thread Vincent Torri
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/21 Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: But I admit I don't have any *really* strong preference. If it really is so that the majority of people who distribute GTK+ apps on Windows would prefer that the pixbuf loaders were separate DLLs I can

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-21 Thread jcupitt
2008/10/21 Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But I admit I don't have any *really* strong preference. If it really > is so that the majority of people who distribute GTK+ apps on Windows > would prefer that the pixbuf loaders were separate DLLs I can return > to that. Is there anybody out there

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-21 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Sorry (just out of ignorance): who or what forced you to revert to > the libjpeg- and libtiff-based loaders? The GDI+ ones don't work... They work for "small" files, but if the file size (not the image size!) is larger than a limit that seems to be around 60 KB, loading fails... See bug #552678.

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > >> Was there a compelling reason for this reversion? > > Not really. As has already been said, if/when the GDI+ -based > pixbuf loaders would be used, then it would hopefully be 100% > clear that it makes sense to build them as built-in in the > gdk-

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Was there a compelling reason for this reversion? > > Not really. As has already been said, if/when the GDI+ -based pixbuf > loaders would be used, then it would hopefully be 100% clear that it > makes sense to build them

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
>> Was there a compelling reason for this reversion? Not really. As has already been said, if/when the GDI+ -based pixbuf loaders would be used, then it would hopefully be 100% clear that it makes sense to build them as built-in in the gdk-pixbuf DLL. But now when I was forced to revert to the lib

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Atallah wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package >> > ( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Atallah wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package >> > ( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Atallah wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package > > ( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html ) has reverted to a > > monolithic build, so that a gtk app won't start without

Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back some app developers who have need of GTK+ on MS > Windows, yet whose apps use only a subset of the available > image-loaders, requested that the build of the Windows packages be > made modular (as it was in t

MS Windows packages and modularity

2008-10-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
A while back some app developers who have need of GTK+ on MS Windows, yet whose apps use only a subset of the available image-loaders, requested that the build of the Windows packages be made modular (as it was in the old days). That way, one can slim down the packaging of one's app, skipping