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Phil is the man
by Giacomo on Wednesday 09/Aug/2006, @00:42

The PyQT / PyKDE bindings are great and IMHO they should be more publicised by the core KDE organisation.

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Re: Phil is the man
by Cerulean on Thursday 10/Aug/2006, @01:54

I agree. What would really be sweet would be if releases of KDE guaranteed the presence of the appropriate PyQt and PyKDE (and hence a run-time dependancy on Python).
The use of PyQt just has so many advantages over your regular C++ and Qt: No hours wasted compiling; no worrying about getting a package created for all architectures; no memory management hassles; interactive testing. You can concentrate on the functionality of your app and describe it in Python eloquently.
Almost all distros ship Python anyways, so it wouldn't be a major problem. It would encourage people who would like to write applications for KDE (but want to cut out the C++ cruft) to do so, and, if the applications were worthy, they could be included in a relevant module in the KDE SVN repository.

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Re: Phil is the man
by Joachim Werner on Wednesday 16/Aug/2006, @04:25

Well, kdebindings3 contains a full set of PyQt, PyKDE, and even QScintilla already. And at least on SUSE Linux the dependency of HP's printing tools on PyQt make sure that the kdebindings3-python RPM is installed by default. ;-)

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