From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: linux desktop in trouble Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:29:06 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <7dfe88e3-d509-49d1-998c-ce494133890c@googlegroups.com> <9d213970-a6da-e0af-7e61-99dd2c772080@planet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58236 Date: 2020-03-24T11:29:06+01:00 List-Id: On 2020-03-24 11:01, ldries46 wrote: > I do not agree with Dmitry for the simple reason that every installing > routine asks from the sender take amateures into account. and as Gtk is > that is as I see it more a problem for the designers than of the > operating system itself. Even under windows you can make a mess of it. Windows simply has no means to handle software components coming not from Microsoft. So GTK's run-time and/or developing cannot be versioned and shared by applications. It is not GTK problem it is Windows problem. E.g. Python has exactly same issues. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de