[Eric] Request: easier install process, please

[Darren Dale]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Detlev
Offenbach<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> On Freitag, 24. Juli 2009, Darren Dale wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Robert
>>
>> Withrow<witr-sender-cf3b11 at rwwa.com> 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