[PyQt] Updating the windows installer for Qt 4.4

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 5/13/2008 1:19 PM, Phil Thompson 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.

Not sure it solves the problems I'm thinking of. The external dependency 
is already very confusing. Let me give you a sample of the questions we 
used to be asked before the consolidated installer, and that will be 
asked again if you go down this way:

"Which version of Qt among the 8 I have installed is used by PyQt?"
"If I install this new Qt version, does it screw my PyQt installation?"
"How can I use a different PyQt/Qt version for different versions of the 
Python interpreter?"
"When I write 'import PyQt4', I get this weird 'cannot find QtCore4.dll' 
error. Why?"
"Should I install Qt before or after PyQt? Does it change anything?"
"I get this weird 'symbol __XvWIqIOQTCORE__WIEWI [insert 250-characters 
mangled C++ name here] cannot be found'; why?" (pyqt/qt version mismatch)
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