[PyKDE] Re: PyQt as a statically compiled shared library...

[Jorge Godoy]

"Truls A. Tangstad" <kerfue+pykde at herocamp.org> writes:

> What we're aiming for now though is making installation easier for
> users on different linux systems to install our software without
> having to satisfy all dependencies manually.

Why don't you adopt the LSB way and uses RPM, as you did with DEB packages?
It is the easiest way.  And with Apt for RPM you can have the same
installation procedure in different Linux systems.

There are Apt repositories for all major distributions and you won't have to
worry with another dependency on your site... 

> My though (which might be naïve) is to compile statically linked
> binaries of the libraries/programs we directly depend on and then
> provide them together with our software, modifying
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH/PYTHONPATH on startup. Is it possible to create a
> qt.so (with friends) that is statically linked against all its
> dependencies, or is it a nightmare of manual labour?

This is a bad approach, IMHO.  It wastes a lot of resources since the system
won't be able to share already loaded libraries.  Besides that, the size of
your programs will also get very big, making it harder to download...

> Is there another approach which might be better for getting a
> no-brainer installation usable across linux distros of a pyqt program?
> (for example not requiring user to install pyqt first)

I'd use Apt with RPM.  And write the dependencies as generic as possible,
aiming a larger base.  

-- 
Jorge Godoy      <godoy at ieee.org>