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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Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
http://www.develer.com
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