[PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert

Tom Jenkins tjenkins at devis.com
Wed Nov 20 20:59:00 GMT 2002


Konrad Hinsen wrote:

> I completely agree with you about the power of PyQt, but I can give a
> reason why I probably won't use it for any of my "mainstream" code in
> the near future: installation. If my code uses PyQt, then every user
> must install Qt and PyQt, both of which are not entirely trivial and
> require a C++ compiler, which not everybody has. Moreoever,
> compatibility between versions is not perfect, not all code for Qt 2
> works with Qt 3. For any supported code, I'd rather avoid the
> resulting support overhead and stick with Tk.
> 

ah that is a problem.  i wanted to download and try this out but i don't 
have a compiler for my windows box.  i can play with it in KDE on Linux 
but i'd like to see it on windows also.

are there any free compilers on windows that i can use for Qt & PyQt?
-- 

Tom Jenkins
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