[PyKDE] PyQt 4 on openSUSE

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

a first application that requires PyQt4 will appear soon. Eric4 the Python IDE 
is in its final stage. I hope to release a first snapshot by the end of the 
month. That could eventually find it's way into openSUSE.

Detlev

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:29, Joachim Werner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> SUSE has been shipping with PyQt/PyKDE installed in the default system for
> quite a while. For PyQT/PyKDE 3 this was a no-brainer: The HP printer tools
> are installed by default and need them, so we have to install PyQt/PyKDE
> (or actually kdebindings3-python that contains them) by default, too. ;-)
>
> Now I have requested the addition of PyQt v4 to the upcoming openSUSE 10.2
> release. But I have met some resistance because there is not a single
> application that needs it right now. I haven't found third party RPMs for
> SUSE or Fedora that we could easily adapt either. If you know about them,
> please tell me.
>
> Personally I think that our Linux would be a better product if we had the
> PyQt 4 "runtime" installed by default, or at least available as RPMs for
> easy installation.
>
> If you think so, too, you can help to make this happen:
>
> Have a look at our build service
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service
>
> and if you like it, write to admin at opensuse.org and ask for an account, so
> you can volunteer as the maintainer for the PyQt 4 package and/or your
> personal PyQt project in the build service.
>
> The cool thing about the openSUSE build service is that does not only build
> RPMs for various flavours of SUSE Linux, but also packages for
> Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva. So this could be a one-stop solution
> for building PyQT packages.
>
> It would also help to tell me about applications that are already using
> PyQt 4 and should be added to openSUSE, or at least be available for
> optional download on the build service.
>
> Finally, just spread the word about PyQt, so that there is more real demand
> for it.
>
> Right now there is a hen-and-egg problem with it: If it's not installed by
> default it's relatively hard to install PyQt 4 apps, but to have PyQt apps
> out there that justify adding PyQt 4 to the distribution by default it has
> to be easy enough to develop/deploy them in the first place.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joachim

-- 
Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de