[PyQt] How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Thu Mar 19 16:08:09 GMT 2009


On 3/19/2009 2:58 PM, Damien Elmes wrote:
> The article has a number of mistakes in it. The author could have
> installed a mac python package and xcode and saved themselves a lot of
> trouble getting pyqt working. They also assert that plugins are not
> distributable when Qt in fact provides an API call to modify the
> plugin path, allowing you to bundle the plugins and point Qt to them.
> On that false assertion they go on to conclude that PyQt is unsuitable
> for Mac development. It works perfectly fine in my app.

And BTW why not use PyInstaller so that you have one single deploy 
instruction for all platforms? And, besides, it also handles PyQt 
plugins automagically (include them into the distribution and setup the 
Qt plugin paths accordingly).
-- 
Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
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