I agree completely. I'd very much like to see Qt and PyQt available on as many platforms as possible. And I would extend the vendors to include Sun, IBM and HP on their proprietary operating systems.
- Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Konrad Hinsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:05 AM
To: Peter Kropf
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert
Peter Kropf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> where we have to be concerned about platform specifics. From my point
> of view, we're just not in a position where we can make a requirement
> of the customer to build the final product. They want to receive a
> ready-to-run program that has minimum setup and configuration
> requirements.
Fine for commercial products. But I am in academia, my code is freely available, and I must keep support to a minimum because I have to do it all by myself.
At the moment the only uncommon library that my code requires is the netCDF library. Consequence: 20% of all support questions are about netCDF installation problems. And netCDF is simple to install compared to Qt and PyQt.
Therefore what I'd like to see is
- binary versions for as many platforms as possible
- encouraging Linux vendors to include Qt and PyQt in their
distributions
- work harder on upwards compatibility of new versions
Konrad.
