[PyKDE] PyQt application packagers for windows?

[Greg Fortune]

On Friday 23 January 2004 06:59 am, Paul Evans wrote:
> On January 23, 2004 01:01 am, Ulrich Berning wrote:
> > Greg Fortune schrieb:
> > >My e-mails and phone calls with Trolltech addressed exactly that clause
> > > and they said it was fine even after I explained that strictly speaking
> > > it was a violation of that clause.  They did say that if I exposed the
> > > Qt api in my app and made it available to the end user (aka, the qt
> > > scripting component), that would be a violation.
>
> ...
>
> > For me, this license clause has a clear meaning: Make it impossible for
> > the end user, to create new software with any component of your
> > software, but making the software customizeable with a scripting
> > language like Python, so the end user can write Python macros to
> > add/modify/delete use cases or dialog components of the application, is
> > ok. If this is not true, we can stop our software development now and
> > search for another toolkit, because scripting will be one of the key
> > features of our commercial application.
>
> IF the above is true, could one not use py2exe to distribute to your
> customer? I used it once last with the free version of pyqt for windows and
> it was quite painless. It runs quickly and you end up with a few dlls and
> an exe.

If py2exe will package up the entire qt directory under site-packages and you 
provide no scripting abilities in your application, that should be ok 
although I understand that it isn't too difficult to bust a py2exe file 
apart.  At the very least, it would be non-trivial and that should satisfy 
that clause.


>
> It turns a harmless looking small script into a few megs of files, but they
> are entirely self-contained for distribution.
>
> The downside for me was that I couldn't make any quick changes on the
> target box, but that sounds like just what you are looking for if your
> interpretation of the license is correct.
>
> Perhaps things have changed since then as I don't follow the windows side
> of things much.