On Tuesday 19 June 2007 8:31 am, techtonik wrote: > Hello. > > What makes Eric so unpopular is the absence of all-in-one installer. Some > of Eric prerequisites are not available for Windows platform in compiled > form (QScintilla, PyQT). QScintilla is distributed in source form only > requiring additional dependencies like SIP to be built. PyQT has binaries, > but they are for Python 2.5 only, so the same compilation problem is > actual. That means you have to download MinGW, gcc and maybe other packages > required for compilation. You can easily spend an hour or even two manually > installing Eric - searching for required files, compiling dependencies and > loooking for workarounds for common problems, such as "ImportError: No > module named sipconfig". I do not mind when J2EE monster takes two hours to > complete the installation, because at least it makes it in a background. > > Right now I doubt that Eric installation is possible at all on Windows. > There is only one version of QSintilla component available from official > site and it's of version 2.1 that is claimed to be API incompatible with > 2.0 required for Eric. > > For most of the users, who just want a convenient Python editor this > installation procedure is overwhelming. I wonder what makes it so hard to > redistribute a complete binary installer for windows built for Pythons 2.4 > and 2.5?
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