[PyQt] Plans for PyQt with respect to Qt 5.6

[Phil Thompson]

On 20 Dec 2015, at 11:50 am, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 19 December 2015, 19:49:22 Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 01:11:09AM +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > > The "official" position is that PyQt supports the Qt releases, nothing
> > > more, nothing less.
> > > 
> > > However, if it easy to reference an external copy of QtWebKit (via new
> > > flags to configure.py) then I'm happy to accept patches that implement
> > > that support. Such patches will not be tested (except to make sure they
> > > don't break regular builds).
> > 
> > According to Qt developer Thiago Macieira there will be official QtWebKit
> > 5.6
> > tarballs available [1]:
> > | Actually, QtWebKit is guaranteed to work for at least a couple more
> > | versions. We’ve just revisited the decision and will release a version
> > | 5.6 of it that does compile.
> > | 
> > | But it will not be included in the main binaries. You’ll need to build
> > | from
> > | sources.
> > 
>  
> Phil, how will you treat this situation with respect to the Windows installer, which includes a copy of the Qt libraries? Will it include QtWebKit?

I don't know yet. I would really like the Windows installer to include only PyQt and none of Qt. With Python 3.5 and Qt 5.6 this is a possibility because there might be Python and Qt installers available built with the same compiler.

Phil