[PyQt] Updating the windows installer for Qt 4.4

[İsmail Dönmez]

Hi,

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 11:59:48 Giovanni Bajo wrote:
>  > On 5/13/2008 10:24 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
>  > > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 09:16:59 you wrote:
>  > >> Hi Phil,
>  > >>
>  > >> First we will install Qt/MinGW and then your installer ? And we have to
>  > >> do this for every machine we want our code to run, correct ?
>  > >
>  > > Correct. Of course there is nothing to stop you creating your own single
>  > > installer containing exactly what you need.
>  > >
>  > >> Ps: Just of curiosity: Why is that change ?
>  > >
>  > > It's too much trouble for me, particularly as building Qt is getting more
>  > > complicated.
>  >
>  > I understand but I think it's a really wrong commercial move.
>  >
>  > The only reason for that package to exist was that it allowed people to
>  > install a complete PyQt version to experiment with a single click.
>  > Instead, you're now forcing people to go through two different
>  > installers, one of which even poses questions which are absolutely
>  > useless and uncomprehensable for Python programmers which are not C++
>  > programmers.
>  >
>  > I personally saw a *large* increase of interest in Python Windows
>  > programmers since the consolidated installer was released. It would be a
>  > shame to see a regression there.
>  >
>  > I really hope you reconsider your choice.
>
>  What I might consider doing is producing an alternative installer for Qt, ie.
>  a Qt-Lite that only includes the bits that PyQt requires.

Well if you'll do that please merge it with main PyQt4 package. This
really makes it painless to do internal distribution.

Regards,
ismail

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