[PyKDE] PyQt distro support?

[Bruce Sass]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2001 13:49, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > Doug Bell wrote:
> > > This is just a general question, but maybe someone can offer some
> > > insight.  Why is there so little support of PyQt from the major Linux
> > > distributions?  There are very few RPM's for PyQt out there.  I found
> > > none for 2.5, and the few that exist for 2.4 are not actually part of
> > > any major distributions.  I didn't check into deb's, but the situation
> > > there is probably similar.
>
> > I've no idea about how packages get to be included in distros.
>
> SuSE includes PyQt, but puts in under the KDE series. Redhat
> and Mandrake also appear to have it (but I'm not sure, not
> using those distributions), and there are debian packages
> out there somewhere.

Debian's testing and unstable have python-pyqt and sip packages at
versions 2.4 and 2.5, respectively.  If the current build of 2.5 lasts
long enough in unstable without any serious bugs, it will get moved
into testing and 2.4 will disappear. [may have changed since I last
looked]

The version of PyQt that makes it into the next release
(Debian 3.0, not too far away) will be the one that makes it through
the unstable -> testing sequence in time... but you'd need to talk to
the maintainer of a package (<package>@debian.org) to find out about
when "in time" is.

Low level and and stuff used by the installation system get frozen
earlier than stuff that nothing else depends on.  PyQt is probably
more the latter right now, but only because it is new to Debian, I
would expect it to slide towards the other end of the scale as apps
based on it get included in the distribution... which happens when
someone gets brave enough to package and support an app <wink>.


- Bruce