Bug 153 – Easy Software Install

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Bug 153 - Easy Software Install

Summary:

Easy Software Install

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Product:	PySide
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	packaging
Version:	HEAD
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P5 normal
Assigned To:	Anderson Lizardo

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Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2010-02-19 03:22 EET by Tyler Starke
Modified:	2010-03-24 16:29 EET (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Tyler Starke 2010-02-19 03:22:14 EET

The pain I had to go through to get PyQt4.7 and Qt4.6.2 installed on my Linux
computers made it very uninviting. However, PyQt has an EXE file that makes it
easy for Windows users.

Can PySide conquer this with Linux machines? For some of us that just want to
work with Python we don't need all of the added software, and for me personally
it is going to make deployment of my software even harder until Linux machines
update to Qt4.6.2

I'd like to see a simple deployment option that contains only what is needed
for Python to use PySide, but that same deployment option should be portable so
if I wanted to get Qt Creator or Qt Designer I could just add that to my
install and it would use the same libraries.

PyQt 4.7 for Windows was a 25 MB download
Qt for Linux is a 100+ MB download
The Qt SDK is a 300+ MB download

I believe the second one contains Creator and that is why the download is so
large.  I maybe wrong, I've been that before.

Comment 1 Hugo Parente Lima 2010-03-17 19:29:08 EET

The better way to use PySide on Linux is using the packages provided by us and
the community around PySide, this is the standard way of installing software on
Linux.

We dont have a windows port yet, but when we have it, we'll provide proper
installers.

I'll tag this bug as "wont fix" because we wont do an installer for linux and
the windows port does not exists yet.