[PyKDE] ANN PyQt v4.0 Released

[sole at esrf.fr]

Quoting Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk>:

> On Sunday 11 June 2006 5:38 pm, sole at esrf.fr wrote:
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > Am I wrong or to use the binary PyQt4 one also needs to compile python
> from
> > source with mingw?
> 
> You are wrong - at least I've never seen a problem.
> 

Great to know I was wrong! :)
Probably people at python.org have done the necessary tweaks for that to happen.
Just a quick search with google shows a lot of pages about the (old?) problem:

http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/Python%20extensions
http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html

> > I can understand you cannot assure support on something build on top of a
> > non-official Qt version. Nevertheles, "I" would not mind to prepare a
> > (totally unofficial) binary installation of PyQt4 with the patched GPLed
> > Qt4 and Visual Studio 2003 if I would know how (I have a very basic
> > knowledge of the NSIS installer).
> >
> > Do I break any license if I distribute compiled GPLed code?? All the
> > sources are readily available and I have a VS 2003 professional license.
> 
> You won't break any license. I plan to do the same thing myself - possibly 
> with Qt statically linked.

Well, you are best entitled person to do it. I thought you were reticent because
of being a non-official Qt. I should have just asked.

Thanks.

Armando

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