[PyQt] Request for a binary Mac installer

[David Boddie]

On Fri May 7 17:47:56 BST 2010, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Note that while the Qt installers work for multiple system versions (10.4 -
> 10.6), PyQt must be built for a specific python version.  There are also 2
> versions of Qt for OS X - Carbon and Cocoa.  So that will make 5 builds to
> maintain:
>
> Qt Carbon for OS X 10.4 (Python 2.3) (is 2.3 even possible? or desirable?)
> Qt Carbon for OS X 10.5 (Python 2.5)
> Qt Carbon for OS X 10.6 (Python 2.6)

Is there still a big demand for a Carbon-based Qt? (What happened to Python
2.4, by the way?)

> Qt Cocoa for OS X 10.5 (Python 2.5)
> Qt Cocoa for OS X 10.6 (Python 2.6)
>
> This would be for the system Python.  Though the same-python-version build
> of Pyqt should be usable between the system and python.org Pythons.  You
> could limit yourself to system versions Apple supports and skip the first
> one.

Or drop Carbon support and just have two...

> Another issue is that building *for* the system Python 2.5 on OS X 10.5 is
> a bit difficult (impossible?) to do *on* OS X 10.6 (the SDKs don't work for
> this).  And switching Qt Cocoa/Carbon could be messy.  You'd need 4 Macs
> (or 2 if you can easily switch Qt's) to build the 4 combinations (not
> counting the oddball 10.4+2.3).

Does Apple ship Python 3 yet? Are developers starting to use it?

David