On Saturday 17 May 2008 23:54:39 Kevin Copps wrote: > > A manifest is also generated for the sip module but it isn't installed. > > Is it > > needed? > > Now that you mention it, probably. I am still learning how manifests and > side-by-side assemblies work. This page seems like a good place to start: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235342.aspx From what I read it > is preferred to embed the manifest inside the binary. > > The python developers had a similar issue related to Python's own DLLs > (pyd) files, see http://bugs.python.org/issue2256 I am not exactly sure how > this issue was resolved. I do not see any manifest files in the Python > install directories. I suppose it would make sense for SIP and PyQt to > handle the manifests in the same way that Python itself does it.
As far as I can see SIP embeds the manifest in the executable so it is not necessary to install it. If I don't run mt on the exe then it fails to run. If I do then it runs - irrespective of whether the manifest is installed or not. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
