I have to say that we really haven't had any trouble with installation issues yet. We can package things up using McMillan's Installer and install the package into a directory on the target system. The package includes all the Python code, main executable and all the shared libraries including Qt. The end-user doesn't have to compile Qt. Makes life easier all around...
- Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Konrad Hinsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert
"Ken Godee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> programing to end results. I personally don't know why anyone would
> use any other python gui combo! wx,gtk,tk etc. (except for lic.
> issues) and I definitely posted this on the python list as well!
I completely agree with you about the power of PyQt, but I can give a reason why I probably won't use it for any of my "mainstream" code in the near future: installation. If my code uses PyQt, then every user must install Qt and PyQt, both of which are not entirely trivial and require a C++ compiler, which not everybody has. Moreoever, compatibility between versions is not perfect, not all code for Qt 2 works with Qt 3. For any supported code, I'd rather avoid the resulting support overhead and stick with Tk.
> > (6) Regarding the online book on PyQt development, is
> > it available in an easily dowloadable form somewhere?
> > I'd like to print it out and read it at leisure rather
> > than staring at the screen all day!
You can use wget to download the HTML code. I keep it on my Zaurus for on-the-road-programming :-)
Konrad.
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