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

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 25 June 2007 6:20 pm, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:21:56 +0100
>
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > > 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.
>
> I have an NSIS exe installer of almost 1.5 Mb including Qwt
> documentation which uncompresses to 9 Mb (the doc is also
> available on the web).

The size isn't a problem then.

> PyQwt has an option to compile and link the Qwt source statically
> into the Python module.
>
> Problem is that my installer requires  numpy (http://numpy.scipy.org).
>
> PyQwt works without numpy, but I like to find the fastest method
> (faster than the sequence protocol) so that PyQwt uses numpy when
> a user has installed numpy (there has been talk about an extended
> buffer protocol, but ...).
>
> When do you plan to release PyQt-4.3?

Soon, but maybe not before the end of the month. However, there is no problem 
with releasing new versions of the installer at any time.

Phil