On 05.09.06 19:29:14, Joachim Werner wrote: > Now I have requested the addition of PyQt v4 to the upcoming openSUSE 10.2 > release. But I have met some resistance because there is not a single > application that needs it right now.
www.apaku.de/linux/xpathevaluator Though I need to re-design the site. > The cool thing about the openSUSE build service is that does not only build > RPMs for various flavours of SUSE Linux, but also packages for Debian/Ubuntu, Debian and possibly the next ubuntu release already contain PyQt4. > Right now there is a hen-and-egg problem with it: If it's not installed by > default it's relatively hard to install PyQt 4 apps, No, not really. It's as hard as installing other software, for exmaple autotools based (i.e. configure && make && make install). > but to have PyQt apps > out there that justify adding PyQt 4 to the distribution by default it has to > be easy enough to develop/deploy them in the first place. It is easy to develop PyQt4 apps and deploying them with standard python means (i.e. distutils/setuptools) is easy as well. Andreas -- Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances. _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list PyKDE@mats.imk.fraunhofer.de http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde