Re: [OpenVista CIS] help on how to build your installer

[Brad T. <bra...@me...>]

Hey,

> I am using your gtk-sharp binding for .net 1.1 and it work great.

Cool!

> I have some applications that produce pdf's and i'm not totally
> satisfied of the rendering quality of cairo on Windows (cairo 1.2.6). On
> linux, (cairo 1.4.10) the quality is far better. I could be wrong on
> that one, I'm not 100% certain that cairo is the only cause of the
> qualities differences.

Weird, we haven't had any quality issues with any of the custom Cairo
widgets that we ship with our application.  In fact, Cairo on Windows
seems to be faster than Cairo on Linux.

> So, I have some time to spend on solving this issue and I plan to build
> an updated version of your installer with the latest gtk-sharp, cairo
> and friends version.

We just got Gtk# 2.10 working on Windows recently, so you might be able
to get Mike's latest Gtk# 2.12 preview running, but you'll also need to
update our copy of Gtk+.

> There is a certain amount of activity around gtk and Windows [1].

Yes, we are just starting to contribute on this project, and see it as
the future direction for our gtk# installers.

> Also, a the new version of gtk-sharp is on it's way [2]. So I could
> find some help there too.
>
> Finally, my questions is about the best way to achieve it. Do you have
> some documentations of the process? How do you build your installer ?.
> On which environment, with which tools ?

Check out the README[1] file in the installer sources[2].

Hope this helps,

-Brad

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[1]
http://openvista.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openvista/gtksharp-win32-installer/trunk/README
[2]
http://openvista.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openvista/gtksharp-win32-installer/trunk/