[PyQt] Windows Install Issue

[Phil Thompson]

On 13-01-2014 6:37 pm, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2014, 18:23:02 Phil Thompson wrote:
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>> On 13-01-2014 5:38 pm, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
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>> > Hello,
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>> >
>
>> > the only ‚work around‘ would be to compile PyQt5 yourself.
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>> > However, depending on what you want to achieve, it may be simpler
> to
>
>> > just stay with PyQt4 and hope, that Phil creates installers, that
> can
>
>> > be installed in parallel. I don’t see a reason, why this should
> not
>
>> > be possible. Eric5 needs PyQt4 to be run. However, that may change
>
>
>> > for
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>> > the next major release (scheduled end of this year).
>
>>
>
>> The issue is that for a particular Python installation you can only
>
>> have one Qt installation because of the way qt.conf works. So you
> would
>
>> need to build PyQt4 and PyQt5 against the same copy of Qt5.
>
>>
>
>> Or (and much easier) you have two Python installations, one for
> PyQt4
>
>> and one for PyQt5. This would allow you to use eric (implemented in
>
>> PyQt4) to debug PyQt5 code using all the standard Python and PyQt
>
>> installers. (At least I think so, Windows registry settings may be
>
>> problematic.)
>
> How can this setup be achieved with the Windows installers? That is
> what most people using PyQt and/or eric on Windows are looking for.

Specify different install directories to the installers.

> Maybe there is a chance for a combined installer with PyQt4 AND PyQt5
> as described in the first paragraph of your response?

Or create a self contained, binary eric package using something like 
PyInstaller.

Phil