On 25/06/2007 0.41, Phil Thompson wrote:
* no eric4. Given this package, installing eric4 should be very easy for
most users. Plus, detlev could use PyInstaller or similar tools to provide
self-contained Windows executables.
eric4 is relatively small, and dials home to see if there is an up to date
version so it's not a burden. It's also a good advert for what you can do
with PyQt.
Still, it's a totally separate application, it's not related to PyQt in any
way but being a big example of a PyQt application.
For instance, the fact that eric4 installs into c:\python25 and site-packages
makes me itchy. That's not how Windows application deployment works. And doing
that within the PyQt4 installer would just reflect this mistake.
If you want to advertise PyInstaller then provide an eric4 plugin that
converts a project to an installer at the click of a button ;)
That'd be good, yes :) It would even work in simple cases, but harder ones
would still require at least the editing of a configuration file.
I often use a in-house PyDeploy package I shall release one day. It takes care
of everything at the price of writing a simple description file which tells it
how your project is arranged.
* I'm not sure installing assistant/designer/linguist in c:\python25 is
the right way to go. Why don't you put them into c:\program files\pyqt? I
am not so sure about the location of pylupdate/pyrcc/pylrealease.
I didn't want to mess with PATH.
There's no reason assistant/designer/linguist must reside in the PATH. As long
as you add a Start menu shortcut to them, I think people won't miss them from
PATH (or if they really want, they can go adding the directory themselves). I
don't think PATH is really needed for most non-console applications. And
that's why I'd rather pylupdate/pyrcc/pylrelease stay in the PATH by default.
[also, I still wonder why python-dev doesn't fix the c:\python25 /
c:\python25\scripts PATH mess...]
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Giovanni Bajo
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