On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Detlev Offenbach<[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
I would be willing to take a shot at it. Time is an issue, but I think I can get something together. Darren _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
