[PyQt] PyQt4 or PyQt5 on PyPI?

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-04-06 10:33 GMT+02:00 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>:
> On 6 Apr 2016, at 5:07 am, Jesse Bloom <jbloom at fredhutch.org> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any plans to put PyQt4 or PyQt4 on PyPI so that they can be installed using pip like a normal Python package? It is hard to use this package in normal Python installation processes due to the fact that it is not on PyPI.
>>
>> The only information I could find about this is the following on StackOverflow:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4628519/is-it-possible-to-require-pyqt-from-setuptools-setup-py
>
> I plan to create wheels for Python v3.5 for Windows (32 and 64 bit), OS X (64 bit) and Linux (64 bit) that will include PyQt v5.6 and Qt v5.6. These are being tested at the moment.

Wow, that's great news.

One question, I guess these wheels won't be usable on Ubuntu 15.10
(Wily), since it only has Python 3.4? We're targeting this version of
Ubuntu with our product, since it's what's released now and has been
used during development so far.

But we're of course considering raising the version to the
soon-to-be-released 16.04 LTS (Xenial). 16.04 will still not include
Qt 5.6 (mistake by Ubuntu IMHO, despite the freeze), so if your wheels
could give us Qt 5.6 + PyQt 5.6 that would be yet another incentive
for us to re-base the product on 16.04.

Cheers,
Elvis

PS. To clarify, our product is a machine for mineral analysis, and
with it, we'll include a laptop with Linux pre-installed, along with
our software for working with the analysis data and controlling the
machine. DS.

>
> Equivalent commercial wheels will be available later on.
>
> I have no plans to change how PyQt4 is packaged and distributed.
>
> There will be traditional Windows installers for PyQt v5.6 but these will be the last ones. For PyQt v5.7 wheels will be the only distribution format.
>
> Phil
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