[PyQt] How to compile with PyQt5?

[Jacob Floyd]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
wrote:

> On 25/07/2014 4:36 am, Kovid Goyal wrote:
>
>> 1600 lines? That's crazy. Here's an extract from calibre's build system.
>>
>
> To add some perspective to this, the amount of code you have to actually
> write for a more representative extension module than QScintilla (eg.
> QtDataVisualization) is 80 lines. For that you get a configure.py with a
> consistent user interface with other PyQt based extension modules, support
> for cross-compiling to iOS, Android etc etc.
>

That would be awesome if you could share QtDataVisualization's
configure.py...
Cross-compiling is a cool feature, but I'm not sure FakeVim would ever make
sense on a mobile device.

I might consider moving the boilerplate to a "pyqtbuilder" module where you
> would implement a class representing those 80 lines and pass it to a
> Builder class imported from the module. However that would mean
> that, if you were supporting PyQt4 and PyQt5, you would have to handle
> which version of pyqtbuilder to import


+1 to a pyqtbuilder
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