On Aug 13, 1:20 pm, Norbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> The same problem occurs with Python 2.7 too.

I think it is wrong to make the statement to look in a way that could
be treated as "it's a python problem" or "it's a pyqt problem", this
is misleading.
I think it would be fair to say it's a problem of the pyqt installer
for Windows or it's a problem of Windows itself.

I think I do have the right to make such a claim, and I can assure you
it contains no hidden rants against Windows. I've come a long way, in
the past I had to manually build packages for qt4 and pyqt4 from
source, because I've started to use leo before my Linux distribution
of choice started to package officially qt4 and pyqt4. I NEVER
experienced nightmares like those I regularly read on this group and
other resources. My concern has a reason. I wouldn't want leo newbies
to see these threads and consider that malfunctions are leo's fault,
python's fault, or pyqt's fault, while they seem to be specific to a
particular setup, involving only a certain operating system. I also
have another reason, which is more selfish: I don't scream around that
leo is so cool and everyone shall use it, I have a strong posture
against such advocating/preaching, but I never miss a chance to tell
people about leo when I see that they do something which could be done
better using leo and I know how easy sometimes users project the
malfunctions of a certain app to the person that suggested it to
them :-)

I'm not going to advocate you to change your operating system if you
use Windows. All I want to say is that if you have no strong reasons
against trying a mainstream Linux distribution, you certainly shall
give it a try. It's much more suited for hacking (learning/using/
improving leo is certainly true hacking, in the good sense).

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