[PyQt] i kindly request for better support of PyQt4 on linux distributions...

[Marcell Mars]

i really like PyQt4 with all of the features it brings to us. couple
of weeks ago i finished application with video playback and PyQt4
provided me great playground. for that particular set up (art
exhibition) it probably saved me at least 7-8 hours of work comparing
to other solutions i was thinking about.

but.

it took me hours of work to finally set it up on ubuntu box. i was
firstly trying to do that properly through ubuntu package management
system but then finally needed to compile everything. i needed to do
that mainly because of phonon support. i use gentoo (where everything
is nice and smooth :o)) but had to use ubuntu because it seems that's
the default choice for desktop these days.

i dream about support where deployment of the PyQt4 apps won't be that painful.

hope riverbanking/trolltech/nokia is aware of what kind of problem we
have here and that they work on the solutions. unfortunately it seems
that just communities around distributions are not capable to solve
that properly. i address that to companies behind the framework
because easy solutions for the deployment are quite in their interest.
(not that it is not in my own selfish interest, too ;))

i'm very thankful for all of the hard work put behind qt/pyqt and i'm
sorry i can't contribute more to that development.

thanx for listening