[PyKDE] Operational Status of PyQt v3.0preX series...

[Phil Thompson]

>===== Original Message From Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey at innoverse.com> =====
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>I just tried out PyQt v3.0pre1 last night (and am now d/l'ing pre2) on my
>RedHat 6.2 linux system running KDE 2.1.1 on top of qt-2.3.0 using
>gcc-2.95.2.1. I've got qt-x11-free-3.0.0-beta6 installed and, in my test
>environment, QTDIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PATH are all pointing to the qt3
>install.
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>In testing out the PyQt stuff under examples, widgets.py and all the tut*.py
>code seems to work just fine but most of the other demo programs either core
>dump or fail in tracebacks upon their execution. Should this stuff work now
>or has the port not gotten along that far? If its supposed to work then does
>my executing from within my KDE 2.1.1/QT 2.3 environment likely cause a
>conflict that might cause these failures. (BTW - can KDE 2.1.1 run on top of
>QT3?).
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>I'm exited about being able to write PyQT code and have it run under both
>Linux and WIndows (and, eventually Mac I hope) but I need to know how far
>along the 3.0 support is for my development effort. I look forward to not
>having to use tkinter or the like for my python gui now.

PyQt itself should be fine under Qt3. Of the examples only widgets.py, 
gears.py and tut*.py have been "ported". I haven't got round to the others 
yet.

Phil