I'm working on a modified setup.py script (with pre and post installation) steps that would take care of this. Definitively a nice programming project ! The win32all package installer by Mark Hammond is a good example. See the recent bugzilla entry for details. Any help is appreciated.
What I'd be interested in (and willing to help out with) is a pygtk installer that includes a gtk distribution, perhaps with a checkbox in the install gui to use it or to use another distribution. This would be targeted at new developers who want to try pygtk out. Along with this, it would be nice to have a single downloadable tarball or set of tarballs that would let developers build the entire toolchain with one command (provided they have a C compiler, of course) so they could build with debug symbols and be able to use a debugger to help understand how things work -- and fix bugs as they find them ;). I have a script to do this that we use internally that I want to clean up so it can be used independently of our build process.
As a side note, I'm getting tired of these various, unofficial and
incompatible (registry-wise) installers, and the installation
questions/problems they generate. I don't think it helps in spreading
the use of GTK+ on win32.
My $.02 is that what we need is not necessarily an official distribution, but rather distributions that don't assume or try to be the only distribution on the machine (I haven't used any of the distributions, so I'm not commenting on any in particular). This means nothing put in the windows or system directory, no changes to the global path, and any registry keys created should be unique to the distribution. Applications that then want to work with the distribution would look for the specific distribution and use it.
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