[Eric] ANN: eric 5.0.0-RC1 released

[Stjujsckij Nickolaj]

  All right.
Actually I've already started porting — I've cloned your eric5 hg repo,  
started a branch for my work and made corresponding symlinks in my  
~/.eric4/ directory.
Can't say I've made much progress though (because of zero Eric/PyQt4  
experience), but plugin now could be loaded and configured (Preferences  
page). Still I cannot figure out what advantages "Eric4 plugin" project  
offers (except snapshot packing) and what to do next — I don't see any  
error or backtrace neither in Log Viewer not in `eric4 --debug`. And  
plugin certainly doesn't work as intended yet (-:E

  Hopefully I'll keep making progress (slowly but steadily) and I'd be  
grateful for any advice about debugging plugins. And I hope you could help  
me with other (possibly stupid) questions that would certainly arise (-:E

P.S. [for everyone] I could publish my branch, but right now I don't see  
real need in doing this. Stiil, if you want to help, track progress or  
something, feel free to ask.

> I don't have intentions to backport it right now (time constraints).
> It is backporting to Python 2 and to PyQt4 API v1. However, it should be
> fairly straight forward (e.g. porting eric to Python3 and API v2  
> actually took me about 3 weeks). If you would like to give it a shot I  
> would recommend to do that as a separate plug-in (like the CVS plug-in).