[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v4.10.1 Released

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:10:10 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2013, 22:18:34 Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:53:58 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
>> 
>> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
>> > Hello Phil,
>> > 
>> > please disregard the first part of the message. Doing some more
>> > investigations showed, that Windwos tricked me. Sorry for the noise.
>> > 
>> > Meanwhile I found a new issue. Calling e.g. qhelpgenerator as 
> delivered
>> > with the lates PyQt4 with Qt5 installer gives this error message:
>> 
>> > Failed to load platform plugin "minimal". Available platforms are:
>> windows.
>> 
>> > In deed, the platforms plugin directory only contains qwindows.dll.
How
>> > can
>> > I overcome this issue?
>> 
>> You'd have to copy it in from the Qt installer.
> 
> I would expect it to be part of the PyQt4 installer. Why should I
install
> Qt 
> separately (and have the stuff twice)?

That's just the workaround until I update the installers.

>> > Yet another observation. Entering the following in a Python 3.3 shell
>> > gives
>> > a wrong output.
>> > 
>> >>>> from PyQt4.QtCore import QLibraryInfo
>> >>>> QLibraryInfo.location(QLibraryInfo.BinariesPath)
>> > 
>> > 'C:/Qt/5.0.2/bin'
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I would have expected something like "C:\Python33\Lib\site-
>> > packages\PyQt4", because that is where the executable reside when
>> > installed via the installer. How can I overcome this issue?
>> 
>> Sounds like a problem with qt.conf. 32 bit or 64 bit installer?
> 
> 32 bit installer.

The location information won't be correct unless you create a
QCoreApplication instance first.

Phil