I have little experience with pyqt, and i am not sure that would be the way to go. A windows user that would want to use a pyqt program would need to have installed in his system: python, pyqt and qt. The offline windows installer of qt is 1.3 gigs. That's overkill for a simple gui app. There must be a simpler way to do it.
I haven't used pyside, but for what i see in the documentation, it follows the same approach than pyqt. On 6 feb, 12:22, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 17:20, Emil Widmann <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the unionfs is a well tested technology now, but a clean > > solution would be that in case of such an replacement/upgrade of the > > sage squashfs the whole sage directory tree in the save directory is > > deleted too - then the user starts with a "fresh" install. > > That's what I think too, but it disagrees with the current behavior of > `sage -upgrade`, which tries to merge any committed changes into the > new version you're upgrading to. That doesn't make sense IMO but there > you are. > > > Sounds great! > > This could be just a small application in the beginning with the sage > > logo and a start button , but can be expanded later. > > I am not sure if it is necessary to write this in python - that is > > another dependency. > > Why not use VBscript or precompile it? Distribution of binaries on > > windows should be no problem. > > Python programs can be made into Windows binaries with py2exe_, a > distutils extension. GUIs can be made relatively easily with PySide_, > or so I've heard - haven't gotten around to trying it myself yet. > > .. _py2exe:http://py2exe.org/ > .. _PySide:http://pyside.org/ > > I wonder why you suggest using VBscript. It's not exactly a majority / > serious language among Windows developers as I recall and certainly > nobody on Mac or Linux uses it. I think we should stick to Python if > possible for widest familiarity among our developers. Maybe you just > meant that it is a built-in scripting language in Windows, which is > true, but as you said, there's no problem in shipping binaries for > Windows. > > -Keshav > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
