Comment 5 for bug 339328

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:43:53PM -0000, Alexandre COLLIGNON wrote:
> Just because MS Windows is my workday OS, I'm interested in porting GTG
> on it. There is a few things to do to run GTG on windows. I just
> commented some *nix specifics instructions like or non-mandatory calls
> (dbus use, fork,..) and renamed gtg to gtg.py on the root directory
> (case insensitive conflict with the GTG folder, fs feature).
>
> The most painful is probably to install all the dependencies that's why
> the development of a all-in-one installer seems to be really important.
>
> So I'm currently starting a new branch to make a full support of GTG on
> windows and maybe starting the development of the a-i-o installer (could
> be a separated project ?)
>
> Advices and remarks are welcome in this thread for the time.

Take a look at how Gimp and Inkscape package the windows releases and
handle their installers. There are a lot of common packaging issues
everyone runs into packaging gtk apps for windows, and it makes sense to
do things consistently. IIRC there is an existing "bundle" of the gtk
dependencies.

Bryce