GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 747742
gtk.org should not host outdated win32 binaries
Last modified: 2015-09-06 11:05:07 UTC
The website[1] hosts and lists Gtk 3.6 as the latest Gtk build for Windows as well as all of its very outdated deps. I feel this reflects very poorly upon the project and causes confusion for new users looking to start developing on Windows. It is understandable that it takes a lot of effort to maintain the entire stack but thankfully other projects already do this. I propose just promoting the msys2[2] project to new users. It is kept up to date, has active contributors from the gnome project, and provides a full development environment. This unifies the development experience and takes the load off of whomever used to maintain these binaries. [1] http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php [2] https://msys2.github.io
I would need the libraries, like [1] does, not a binary to install them, like [2]. See also bug #741337.
(In reply to Eugen Dedu from comment #1) > I would need the libraries, like [1] does, not a binary to install them, > like [2]. > > See also bug #741337. Why is that a problem?
(In reply to Eugen Dedu from comment #1) > I would need the libraries, like [1] does, not a binary to install them, > like [2]. That's the problem: nobody working on GTK is also doing a binary distributions just for gtk.org; that's why the strong suggestion is to use MSYS2. > See also bug #741337. That bug would be taken care of just by *not* using the broken binary builds on gtk.org. The gtk.org website is hosted in Git at: https://git.gnome.org/browse/git-web I can prepare a patch, but it's probably better if somebody with actual access to an MSYS2 installation could help out.
Created attachment 305881 [details] [review] Drop binary builds for Windows We haven't been doing them for more than 2 years; we don't do that for any other platform anyway; and there are better ways to obtain and use GTK on Windows, these days.
Created attachment 305989 [details] [review] Drop binary builds for Windows We haven't been doing them for more than 2 years; we don't do that for any other platform anyway; and there are better ways to obtain and use GTK on Windows, these days.
Review of attachment 305989 [details] [review]: As a start it looks good to me. I guess at some point we should put directly the information of the articles in the web page directly.
Since nobody is touching the website, I just went ahead and pushed. Attachment 305989 [details] pushed as f162225 - Drop binary builds for Windows