QoTD: This is why
From one of the comments of my previous post:
I use Ubuntu in my job, but my boss uses Windows. Without your easy W32 PyGTK installer, I would not have been able to choose PyGTK+Kiwi to build my latest project.
Next time someone tell me "who cares about Windows users they don't care about us" I won't bother anymore .
I think it is super great that you put effort in a windows installer for GTK+.
When I think back to the time before I used Linux, I ran a lot of GTK+ apps, like Gajim, Gaim, Inkscape, Gimp and so on.
And I was really thankful for all the people who made it possible that I could run such great apps on my computer.
Thank You!
Posted by: mike | 05/20/2007 at 10:28 AM
Adding to that comment, i am a student finishing it's graduation in Mechanical Engeneering. Fot that, i have to make a project related to computer vision for industries. In industrial environments, windows is currently the only tool. Using gtk and glade windows port (from gladewin32 project) i am able to develop to windows, on linux, and for linux.
It is great to have this freedom. My take is to substitute some windows environment to reliable linux environments.
so ... keep the windows port always ... it is crutial.
Posted by: Luis Matos | 05/20/2007 at 12:34 PM
I thought I'd chime in as well. As open source developers, we're supposed to be good citizens and promote flexibility and freedom, unlike our closed-source brethren. It would be totally hypocritical to develop for only one platform, especially since we constantly complain about vendor lock-in. I think sometimes people in the Linux/BSD community forget that vendor lock-in can exist in free software as well.
A big warm thankyou to you and everyone else working on making pygtk as seamless as possible on Mac OS X and Windows! It would be a serious loss to open source if development of these ports ever were abandoned.
Posted by: Brent | 05/20/2007 at 10:07 PM
I use PyGTK at home on Linux, and PyQt at work on Win32. Whatever the relative merits of Qt and GTK+, PyGTK is far more Pythonic than PyQt, and I would rather be using it at work, too. I believe the only reason it isn't is because when our project started, PyGTK on Windows was basically a no-go. So while you couldn't save me, hopefully this work will enable us to save my successor. :-)
Posted by: Ken | 05/21/2007 at 01:04 AM
Relatedly: "His rationale for OS ISVs was that the choice of Microsoft as a platform is simple - as an OS ISV with thin margins volume is what is most crucial for your business."
http://www.subhashnair.com/2007/05/microsoft-and-opensource.html
Posted by: TRS-80 | 05/24/2007 at 01:08 PM