[PyKDE] Bindings and the KDE project

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Wed Mar 17 20:48:00 GMT 2004


On Wednesday 17 March 2004 19:31, Simon Edwards wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How do people here feel about the current state of PyQt/PyKDE in relation
> to KDE (the project)? Is it a real problem for people that PyQt/PyKDE isn't
> distributed as part of KDE? or would it be enough if the distros also came
> with PyQt/PyKDE as 'standard'?
>
> It is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but the fact that not everyone
> (user) has PyQt/PyKDE around is IMHO hindering wide adoption and use of
> Python for KDE apps.
>
> I just want to know what everyone's thoughts are on this issue.

As far as PyQt is concerned I've always said that I have no objection to 
copies of SIP and PyQt being included in the KDE CVS, but that it would never 
be the "master" copy. It just needs somebody from the KDE project to step up 
and manage it.

Phil




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