[PyQt] Experimental PyQt5 v5.6 Wheels Available

[Phil Thompson]

I've created wheels for SIP and PyQt5 v5.6 snapshots that are available from their respective download pages. They are for the following architectures:

Linux 64-bits
OS X 64-bits
Windows 64-bits
Windows 32-bits

The PyQt5 wheels contain a minimal copy of Qt v5.6 - only those parts needed to support PyQt. They include pyuic5 but not (yet) pyrcc5 and pylupdate5. They do not contain QScintilla - there will be separate wheels for that.

Please give feedback.

I'm particularly interested in how well the Linux wheel works across different Linux distros. They were created on Ubuntu.

The wheels have not been uploaded to PyPi because the PyQt wheels are too large, which is a shame. My original plan was to *not* bundle Qt. However that means that PyQt has to make assumptions about where Qt has been installed. The only reasonable assumption is the default location used by the Qt installers (ie. ~/Qt5.6.0 on Linux and OS X and C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0 on Windows). I thought that was going to be too restrictive.

I'd like feedback on the best approach to this...

1. Stick with the current approach, unable to use PyPi, large download, simple install once downloaded, supports non-default Qt locations.

2. Don't bundle Qt, can use PyPi, small download, simple install, Qt must be installed in its default location.

I could supplement 2) with a tool (provided as part of the wheel) that could be run (once) to "re-direct" the installed PyQt to the actual Qt installation.

A further variation would be a separate tool that would modify the downloaded wheel to do the re-direct so that the modified wheel would be correct for your personal/company standards for the Qt location.

Thoughts?

Phil