[Eric] Simplified installation?

[techtonik]

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?

Regards,
 anatoly t.