Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?

[aberba]

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 16:30:39 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 17:03:51 UTC, Ron Tarrant 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 13:52:48 UTC, 
>> bioinfornatics wrote:
>>
>>> I think I misunderstood your need but are lo looking for dub 
>>> tool with its repository https://code.dlang.org/
>>
>> I don't think so, but I could be wrong. I tried reading up on 
>> dub, but got lost in the docs, so I really don't understand 
>> what all it can do.
>
> Dub is a tool for developers, I understand your requirements 
> that you want target end customers of your applications. 
> Therefore dub is the wrong tool for this job.
>
> To be more precise, gtkd is a wrapper for GTK. Gtkd is not 
> interesting in this context, but the dependency on gtk. On 
> windows you have the possibility to either publish your 
> application with GTK dlls or to run gtk setup routine as part 
> of your application setup routine or just say in your readme 
> that the customer needs to run GTK setup on there own.
>
> On posix (linus, macos) of course you can also say in your 
> readme that the customer should run apt-get ... to install gtk 
> (here I do not have much knowledge on packaging).
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

I will immediately abandon any app that provides this sort of 
incomplete experience to use unless I have my developer hats 
on...or I really have not other choice.