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

Christoph Burgmer chrislb at gmx.de
Fri Mar 20 04:30:54 GMT 2009


Am Freitag, 20. März 2009 schrieb Giovanni Bajo:
> 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).

He was looking for Mac also, but from the PyInstaller website I take:
> Mac port in development

Christoph



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