[PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert

[Peter Kropf]

I have to say that we really haven't had any trouble with installation
issues yet. We can package things up using McMillan's Installer and install
the package into a directory on the target system. The package includes all
the Python code, main executable and all the shared libraries including Qt.
The end-user doesn't have to compile Qt. Makes life easier all around...

- Peter



-----Original Message-----
From: Konrad Hinsen [mailto:hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:47 AM
To: ken at perfect-image.com
Cc: pykde at mats.gmd.de
Subject: Re: [PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert


"Ken Godee" <ken at perfect-image.com> writes:

> programing to end results. I personally don't know why anyone would 
> use any other python gui combo! wx,gtk,tk etc. (except for lic.
> issues) and I definitely posted this on the python list as well!

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.

> > (6) Regarding the online book on PyQt development, is
> > it available in an easily dowloadable form somewhere?
> > I'd like to print it out and read it at leisure rather
> > than staring at the screen all day!

You can use wget to download the HTML code. I keep it on my Zaurus for
on-the-road-programming :-)

Konrad.

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