[PyQt] PyQt v4.3a1 Binary Installer for Windows

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Mon Jun 25 17:21:56 BST 2007


On Monday 25 June 2007 5:14 pm, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2007 4:51 pm, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:12:57 +0100
> >
> > Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I've created a binary Windows installer for what will be PyQt v4.3 at
> > > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/PyQt4/GPL/PyQt-gpl-4.3a1-Py
> > >2. 5.exe
> > >
> > > The purpose of the package is to satisfy the needs of 95% of users -
> > > not 100%.
> > >
> > > At the moment this includes the following...
> > >
> > >   - the standard PyQt4 modules (except QtDesigner)
> > >   - QScintilla2
> > >   - pyuic4, pyrcc4, pylupdate4
> > >   - designer, assistant, linguist
> > >   - Qt and PyQt docs
> > >   - PyQt examples
> > >   - support for SQLite (but no other database drivers)
> > >   - support for PNG, SVG, GIF, JPEG (but no other image formats)
> > >
> > > In other words you don't need the Qt installer from Trolltech or
> > > MinGW.
> > >
> > > I plan to add eric4 and (probably) the SSL classes before the final
> > > release. I may remove the Qt documentation and just provide a link to
> > > Trolltech's website.
> > >
> > > The package isn't extensible. If you want to add additional Qt based
> > > modules (or additional database drivers or image formats) then you
> > > should build things yourself.
> >
> > Does it mean that it is impossible to build a PyQwt installer
> > for this package? It was possible for PyQt-gpl-4.2-Py2.5-Qt4.2.3.exe
> > provided that I built sip and PyQt myself.
>
> Afraid so - like I said, 95% of users.

...but how big are PyQwt and Qwt? I don't have a problem with including them 
if they aren't huge.

Phil


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