[PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert

[Peter Kropf]

I agree completely. I'd very much like to see Qt and PyQt available on as
many platforms as possible. And I would extend the vendors to include Sun,
IBM and HP on their proprietary operating systems.

- Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Konrad Hinsen [mailto:hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:05 AM
To: Peter Kropf
Cc: pykde at mats.gmd.de
Subject: Re: [PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert


Peter Kropf <pkropf at legato.com> writes:

> where we have to be concerned about platform specifics. From my point 
> of view, we're just not in a position where we can make a requirement 
> of the customer to build the final product. They want to receive a 
> ready-to-run program that has minimum setup and configuration 
> requirements.

Fine for commercial products. But I am in academia, my code is freely
available, and I must keep support to a minimum because I have to do it all
by myself.

At the moment the only uncommon library that my code requires is the netCDF
library. Consequence: 20% of all support questions are about netCDF
installation problems. And netCDF is simple to install compared to Qt and
PyQt.

Therefore what I'd like to see is

- binary versions for as many platforms as possible
- encouraging Linux vendors to include Qt and PyQt in their
  distributions
- work harder on upwards compatibility of new versions

Konrad.
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