[PyQt] How to compile with PyQt5?

[Phil Thompson]

On 03/08/2014 7:20 am, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 01:38:52AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> For Debian/Ubuntu they are in /usr/share/sip/PyQt5.  That's based on 
>> the
>> default py_sip_dir in Python/configure.py.
>> 
>> We made the decision only to package PyQt5 and PyQt5.QSci for Python3 
>> (it
>> simplifies the packaging work and we made the assumption that any new 
>> code
>> being ported to Qt5 would also be ported to Python3.  Is that going to 
>> be a
>> problem?
> 
> calibre 2.x will be using python2 and PyQt5. I suggest building PyQt5 
> for both.

I assume you aren't relying on any Windows installers.

> Either use the directory scheme Arch does, or hopefully Phil can give 
> us
> some official guidance on how to have PyQt5 for both python 2 and 3 on
> the same system.

I don't understand the problem. The PyQt5 .sip files are the same for 
Python 2 and 3.

Phil