[PyQt] Re: trouble installing PyQt

Mark Summerfield mark at qtrac.eu
Fri Apr 13 11:34:22 BST 2007


On Fri 13-Apr-07, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2007 10:37 am, you wrote:
> > On 13/04/2007 10.50, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > > However, the one thing you definitely want to work immediately after
> > > installing is to be able to run the demo from the menu. I've updated
> > > the installer - it now sets the PATH correctly.
> >
> > Too fast! I was going to suggest you can rip the PATH editing code from
> > my gcc4 installer... :)
> >
> > How do you detect where Qt4 is? And what about multiple versions?
>
> Qt4 location is hardcoded and assumes a default installation. It will do
> for now. As I said I would like to include Qt in a future version - so all
> of this would be a non-issue.

Until then, wouldn't it be better to have a (checked) checkbox that says
"Update Path to include Qt"; most users will then happily ignore it, but
those who have more than one Qt or who prefer to install Qt themselves
or who don't want their path fiddled with can uncheck it?

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Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu



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