[PyQt] PyQt4 or PyQt5 on PyPI?

[Phil Thompson]

On 6 Apr 2016, at 5:30 pm, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Correct. The upgrading of the compiler used on Windows for v3.5 makes it worth while putting in the effort to improve the packaging on all platforms.

Phil