[Eric] Request: easier install process, please

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Freitag, 24. Juli 2009, Darren Dale wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Robert
>
> Withrow<witr-sender-cf3b11 at rwwa.com> wrote:
> > Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >> On 23.07.09 19:33:41, Robert Withrow wrote:
> >>> I've brought this up before.  Current versions of Eric are unavailable
> >>> in the package repos of any distro.
> >>
> >> That statement is simply wrong. I can see eric just fine here in Debian.
> >
> > You didn't read carefully enough.  I said "current".  Old packages are
> > available in distros but only get updated when a new version of the
> > distro is released.  This happens, maybe, every six months.
> >
> >> Now, I haven't been following eric development very closely in the last
> >> 1-2 years, but I was under the impression that the only required
> >> dependency of eric is PyQt4 (and hence Qt4)
> >
> > Please check the web site, because your impression is not correct.
>
> The required dependencies are Python, Qscintilla and PyQt4 (and hence
> Qt). Some of these dependency issues are not specific to eric, but
> more a problem for python in general. I think it would be nice if Eric
> used distutils so a binary installer could be distributed for windows,
> one that included a post-installation script that created entries for
> eric in the start menu. 

Is anybody interested in contribution a distutils setup in order to create 
distutils packages?

> But I don't really see what is the issue on 
> linux, if you want more up-to-date versions of software, you can
> usually enable optional repositories that provides them. I have a
> system at work running fedora 10, and I'm able to install eric-4.3.4
> with yum.
>
> Respectfully,
> Darren
>
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