On Freitag, 24. Juli 2009, Darren Dale wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Robert > > Withrow<[email protected]> wrote: > > Andreas Pakulat wrote: > >> On 23.07.09 19:33:41, Robert Withrow wrote: > >>> I've brought this up before. Current versions of Eric are unavailable > >>> in the package repos of any distro. > >> > >> That statement is simply wrong. I can see eric just fine here in Debian. > > > > You didn't read carefully enough. I said "current". Old packages are > > available in distros but only get updated when a new version of the > > distro is released. This happens, maybe, every six months. > > > >> Now, I haven't been following eric development very closely in the last > >> 1-2 years, but I was under the impression that the only required > >> dependency of eric is PyQt4 (and hence Qt4) > > > > Please check the web site, because your impression is not correct. > > The required dependencies are Python, Qscintilla and PyQt4 (and hence > Qt). Some of these dependency issues are not specific to eric, but > more a problem for python in general. I think it would be nice if Eric > used distutils so a binary installer could be distributed for windows, > one that included a post-installation script that created entries for > eric in the start menu.
Is anybody interested in contribution a distutils setup in order to create distutils packages? > But I don't really see what is the issue on > linux, if you want more up-to-date versions of software, you can > usually enable optional repositories that provides them. I have a > system at work running fedora 10, and I'm able to install eric-4.3.4 > with yum. > > Respectfully, > Darren > > _______________________________________________ > Eric mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric -- Detlev Offenbach [email protected] _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
