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

[Anonymous]

That's interesting, as i found it easier to set up Qt4 Phonon support on Ubuntu than i did on Gentoo. On Gentoo, media-sound/phonon would always collide with qt4-phonon. Everytime i had to update my system, Gentoo would always inform me of this collision, forcing me to uninstall qt4-phonon, install media-sound/phonon (as it was a requirement for KDE4), update my system, then would i be able to remove media-sound/phonon and reinstall qt4-phonon.

But why are you saying this to the PyQt mailing list when this is dependent on the Linux distributers' side?

--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Marcell Mars <marcell.mars at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marcell Mars <marcell.mars at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PyQt] i kindly request for better support of PyQt4 on linux distributions...
> To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 7:53 PM
> 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
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