[drats_users] D-RATS development

[Dan Smith]

Hi Andrew,

> I was surprised to see that D-RATS is multi platform and uses GTK ?

Yes, GTK works on many platforms.  You can get the win32 binaries here:

http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

> Can you tell me a little about the development of D-RATS

Well, I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but it's written in
Python, using GTK (which you seem to know).  I use py2exe to wrap the
python environment and interpreter up into a win32 executable.

> Also - how did you get the installer part of it ?

NSIS is a generic scriptable installer.  It can be used to lay down any
set of files onto the system, and provides ways to install start menu
shortcuts, etc.  The build system is all included in the D-RATS
development tree, so you can see the scripts I use to automate the
windows build from a linux machine over ssh:

http://d-rats.danplanet.com/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/d-rats-0.2.hg/file/d11fd0b3f92a/build/

Hope that helps!

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