[Gtk-sharp-list] Gtk# 0.10 installer for Windows (aka. Gtk# Runtime and Development Environment for Windows)

Johannes Roith johannes@jroith.de
26 Jun 2003 19:05:09 +0200


Hello, Mathias!

> 
> Gtk# assemblies are now strongly named, compiled with ngen and copied to

> the assembly cache during installation. This solves the first part of
> the long known ".NET-Framework-cannot-find-Gtk#" problem. Second part of
nice.
> the well known problem is gtksharpglue.dll not being found. Best
> solution for this so far: Manually tweaking the PATH environment
> variable. The Gtk# Runtime and Development Environment introduces a more
> elegant solution:
> 	public static void Main()
> 	{
> 		GtkSharpRuntimeEnvironment.Init();
> 		Gtk.Application.Init();
> 		...
> 

Hmm. I'm not that sure, if this is really elegant.
This will require applications to be adapted, generally a bad thing.

Ximian will do official windows packages, based on the 0.9 nsis script.
It would be nice, to merge the new features.

Johannes