Why are GTK bindings not a standalone release?

[Maarten Boekhold]

Hi all,

I was wondering why the GTK bindings are not a separate standalone
release from the Gnome bindings. Just as GTK is a popular toolkit for
building user interfaces with Python *but without gnome*, they could
become a popular alternative for Java and JVM-based scripting languages
as well. It would also allow a release on Windows where the Gnome
libraries are not available (but the GTK libs and its dependencies are).

Maarten