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Re:Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes by oliwarner on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:18AM (#18680288)
The title does not mesh with the content.

Writing a PyQt5 app is still as much of a ballache as writing a GUI in anything is. Certainly takes a lot of "minutes". The article just downloads a preprepared application.

What TFA is really doing is selling (unless you're GPL) an application that packages this all up. All things you could do for yourself, but that take an amount of effort.

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Re:Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes by mherrmann on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:00AM (#18680490)
I didn't pick the current title - it was set by a mod. And yes, PyQt still takes time. And yes, you could do packaging & deployment yourself. But it will take weeks or months, depending on how many platforms you target. Why reinvent the wheel?
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