[PyQt] Supplying PyQt5 via PyPI

[Marcus Ottosson]

A first version is up here:
https://github.com/pyqt/python-qt5

Install like this:

$ pip install python-qt5

Currently only supports:

   - Python 2.7
   - Windows 7+

And uses PyQt5.3.2 compiled with Qt 5.3.1 and requires the VS2013
redistributable.
Differences between the distribution provided by Riverbank

   1. sip is bundled within the /PyQt5 directory
   2. qt.conf is replaced with initialisation within __init__.py
   3. Version numbers provided via PyQt5.version, PyQt5.qt_version and
   PyQt5.pyqt_version

Due to 1 and 2, I expect issues when running qmlscene.exe and such as they
wouldn’t get the initialisation from Python, though it does simplify
distribution just a tad and allows for multiple PyQt5 versions to coexist.
Let’s talk.

Best,
Marcus
​

On 23 September 2014 09:14, Marcus Ottosson <konstruktion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Chris and Matt.
>
> On 22 September 2014 22:58, Chris Kaynor <ckaynor at zindagigames.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Matt Newell <newellm at blur.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have compiled qt/sip/pyqt and a lot of other c++ stuff with msvc2005,
>>> 2008,
>>> 2010, and recently 2012 ALL linked against python.org's python 2.7 and
>>> I've
>>> never had an issue.  This code has been used extensively in production
>>> with
>>> over 100 users inside various 3rd party applications (3dsmax, softimage
>>> xsi,
>>> more recently maya), a bunch of in house applications, and from
>>> python.exe
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> However you MUST use the same msvc for anything that passes around c++
>>> objects, or you WILL get crashes.
>>>
>>> Fortunately libpython is an all C api and it's my understanding that the
>>> C ABI
>>> has been stable between msvc versions.  I think the new/delete problem
>>> does
>>> not apply because of the way python's memory management works.  I also
>>> think
>>> that any python modules i've compiled do not pass FILE pointers to
>>> python's
>>> api.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying problems aren't possible just that in my experience it
>>> works
>>> fine.
>>>
>>
>> This has generally been my experience as well. Namely, at work we use
>> Maya 2013 which embeds CPython 2.7 compiled against VS2010, and most 3rd
>> party C extensions work fine. Additionally, we have a few internal C
>> extensions as well, which are compiled against VS2010, and they work fine
>> in Python 2.7 as downloaded from python.org.
>>
>> In a few cases, however, we have run into issues, which are quite
>> annoying. Generally, any issues show up almost immediately, however in a
>> few cases crashes have shown up days or weeks after starting to use a
>> library, when somebody decides to call a function that then passes a C std
>> object across the library boundary, which are then often very difficult to
>> debug.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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>
>
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> *Marcus Ottosson*
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>



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