With added support for self-hosting, Glom for Windows now supports all the major features that the Linux version does (apart from Service Publishing, which is probably way more effort since Avahi is not available on Windows). It's time to think about how to package it, and what dependencies to include, especially whether to ship with GTK+ or not.
All the major GTK+-using projects such as Inkscape, Pidgin and Wireshark include GTK+. Even the GIMP does so since version 2.4. This actually generates a lot of duplication, which is why we (or, rather, I) did decide not to ship it with Gobby. Of course we are getting complaints such as "Hey, this doesn't work because libgtk-win32-2-0-0.dll was not found!!1" from time to time, but if people are not able to read the instructions right above the download link, well, then I'm sorry. Do others think the added duplication is worth that the user needs to install GTK+ manually once? Or, maybe, is this just because there is no "official" GTK+ installer?
Then, there is python, and I have not so much experience here. Glom links statically against libpython, so it should even run without python being installed. However, buttons and calculated fields won't work then, unless we ship with at least pyGTK. Perhaps the best thing is to state that for button scripts and calculated fields to work, python and pyGTK have to be installed. We just have to make sure that Python finds the glom and pygda modules then, even if Python was installed after Glom (so it had no chance to install them into the standard location for such modules), but probably Python has some API for this.
Last but not least, we have gtkmm which also has an installer that is hosted on ftp.gnome.org even. I think we should either ship both GTK+ and gtkmm, or none of them.
If you have any thoughts on this, recommendations and suggestions are welcome.
