[Mono-dev] C bindings VS C++ bindings (Gtk# vs. Kimono?)

[Jerome Haltom]

I spent a lot of time previously researching all this MSI stuff.

No, you can't do that. Merge modules might have been an answer, but
merge modules are not designed for dependencies. They are designed to
repackage files for a private installation.

The official MS party line on this is to build full .MSI files for each
of the dependencies: gtk, gtk# *2 and Mono, and then to build a
bootstrapper which uses the MSI API to install all 3. Building a
bootstrapper takes work.


On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:26 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > Yes, I think this is possible, however it would force you guys to ship
> > Mono in a separate installer.
> 
> I think we can do that;   If we can do installers with dependencies (if
> we move to MSI) then we can just have one that has everything, right?
> 
> > While we're chatting, if anyone is interested in getting their hands on
> > the source for our installers, they're available on our SourceForge.net
> > page[1].
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -Brad
> > 
> > --
> > [1]
> > http://openvista.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openvista/gtksharp-win32-installer/
> > 
> > 
> > 
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