[PyQt] PyQt v4.3a1 Binary Installer for Windows

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Mon Jun 25 17:14:54 BST 2007


On Monday 25 June 2007 4:51 pm, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:12:57 +0100
>
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've created a binary Windows installer for what will be PyQt v4.3 at
> > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/PyQt4/GPL/PyQt-gpl-4.3a1-Py2.
> >5.exe
> >
> > The purpose of the package is to satisfy the needs of 95% of users -
> > not 100%.
> >
> > At the moment this includes the following...
> >
> >   - the standard PyQt4 modules (except QtDesigner)
> >   - QScintilla2
> >   - pyuic4, pyrcc4, pylupdate4
> >   - designer, assistant, linguist
> >   - Qt and PyQt docs
> >   - PyQt examples
> >   - support for SQLite (but no other database drivers)
> >   - support for PNG, SVG, GIF, JPEG (but no other image formats)
> >
> > In other words you don't need the Qt installer from Trolltech or
> > MinGW.
> >
> > I plan to add eric4 and (probably) the SSL classes before the final
> > release. I may remove the Qt documentation and just provide a link to
> > Trolltech's website.
> >
> > The package isn't extensible. If you want to add additional Qt based
> > modules (or additional database drivers or image formats) then you
> > should build things yourself.
>
> Does it mean that it is impossible to build a PyQwt installer
> for this package? It was possible for PyQt-gpl-4.2-Py2.5-Qt4.2.3.exe
> provided that I built sip and PyQt myself.

Afraid so - like I said, 95% of users.

Phil


More information about the PyQt mailing list