[PyQt] Re: trouble installing PyQt

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 13/04/2007 8.24, Mark Summerfield wrote:

>>> BTW, PyQt's binary install could verify this automatically and *at
>>> least* display a warning. Phil?

>> I suppose so - but it's really up to the Qt installer to get this right.
> 
> I do think you're missing the point here.
> 
> You install GPL Qt, but if you want to run PyQt4 programs they just
> don't work by double-clicking. So you can either run the Qt console
> shortcut which executes qtvars.bat and run them from the console---ugly,
> or you can manually add Qt to the path. Since _you_ know where Qt is
> when PyQt is installed, you could either (1) add Qt's bin dir to the
> path (yes please), or (2) at least tell the poor user to do it
> themselves! TT are never going to do this because as far as they're
> concerned they've got qtvars.bat.

Agreed, but remember that there could easily be more than on version of Qt4 
installed on the same computer, so it's hard for the installer to 
automatically know what to do. It could show the list of all available Qt4 
versions and let the user pick one to add to the PATH, but that's really 
elaborated. I guess it's easier to just warn the user about "no Qt4 found in 
the PATH".

Phil, how do you create the Windows installer? InnoSetup? Is the source code 
available somewhere?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo