[Demexp-dev] Re: win32 and GTK

[GISQUET Christophe]

Good evening,

David MENTRE a écrit :
> > David MENTRE a écrit :
> > > BTW, I can no longer make translation work on linux. (sigh)
> > What do you mean? The .po editor you used is not working anymore?
>
> No, a different issue: the translation are not used when I start the
> client with my French locale. But maybe I forgot something, I haven't
> tested that part of the code for months. :-/

I had a discussion with ocaml-gettext author where he underlined how very 
picky the softwares were with the locale, for instance iso8859-1 vs. 
iso-8859-1. Maybe you could run LANG=fr ./demexp-gtk2-client

> As I said privately to you, I prefer option 2 (embedded GTK installer)
> because (i) we rely on *standard* GTK installer and (ii) the user has

I just noticed that unfortunately most gtk installers don't provide libglade2. 
The official one distributed with The Gimp for instance doesn't have it.

Only this one does provide it:
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=12

> The only remaining question is the behaviour of embedded GTK installer
> when GTK is already installed on user machien (e.g. from a The Gimp
> installation).

The Gimp GTK installer properly detects a previous installation by:
- detecting some registry keys (I'll do the same)
- proposing to remove it

The later point begs for the question: should we include libglade dll within 
demexp package or should we use a GTK installer providing it? I think the 
former solution is better because we can skip altogether the GTK installation 
when it is detected.

So the demexp installer would do those steps:
- detect GTK and deduce whether to install it; this is an incomplete decision, 
as it should also find if it is recent enough, and propose to update/uninstall it
- display what software will be installed; those would be unmodifiable check 
boxes showing what is going to be installed: demexp always ticked, and GTK box 
ticked depending on previous result
- if GTK is to be installed, extract the setup to demexp install folder, then 
run this setup; canceling the GTK setup should cancel the demexp setup

Best regards,
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Christophe GISQUET