[PyKDE] distributing PyQt programs

[Philippe Fremy]

Hello,

I'm not subscribed to this list (but I'v browsed the archives) so please
include my email-adress in replies.

I have just developed a small game with PyQt, and now I want to distribute it.

But I realise that if I just distribute the .py, people will need to have PyQt
already installed on their system. It wasn't installed on mine, and I couldn't
find it in my distribution (Suse). So that means that the user should download
sip, compile & install it, download pyqt, compile & install it.

This is rather a big constraint for just a small game (less than 500 lines),
especially if you just want to test it. I wonder if there are easier way to
distribute my program. For example, is it possible to distribute the qt module
with the .py ? That would make the download bigger, but it would at least make
the game usable by anyone having Python and Qt on his system (which is quite
common). Or is the freeze module the only solution ?

I also join Wayne who posted here yesterday. 

Having PyQt supporting QCanvas would be very good. I intend to write other
small games and QCanvas seems like the best way to go. Perhaps it could be
done before any Qt 2.2 port, to have it quickly available separately as a
special module ?

Having also Qt Designer generating python code would be a must! Looking at my
programs, PyQt and C++ Qt are very close, so it's perhaps not very difficult !

	cheers,

	Philippe