[PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 7:50 pm, Tom Jenkins wrote:
> 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?

If you don't want to spend money, and you are working in a "non-commercial 
setting", then you can use the non-commercial editions of both Qt and PyQt 
which are both provided as Windows binaries.

Otherwise you need the commercial versions of both Qt and PyQt (and a compiler 
to build them with).

Phil