[lsb-discuss] Please consider PyQt4 for future LSB

[Alexey Eromenko]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> The current problem, is that, while "pyqt4" package is available on
>> all major distros AFAIK, no one installs it by default, with the
>
> Which presumably means they don't think it is appropriate for a base
> system ?

Not sure about the cause.

>> result that newbie users cannot just download and run PyQt4
>> applications from 3rd party sources. This is not a problem for
>> packages that are part of distro repository, but for 3rd party
>> developers.
>
> Is there a formal specification for PyQT4, and a group of people
> including its authors willing to work on and support such a project ?

My understanding is that most of PyQt4 python bindings are
automatically generated from Qt4 (C++) library by scripts. Only part
of it is written by people.

Basically if the PyQt4 library loads, it works the same as Qt4 (C++) library.
Basic test necessary is only test that PyQt4 can load.
PyQt4 has stable (python) API.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"