[PyQt] Experimental PyQt5 v5.6 Wheels Available

[Phil Thompson]

On 9 Apr 2016, at 6:54 pm, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I tried to install the Linux wheel on openSUSE Leap 42.1 but got this output.
>  
> pip install PyQt5-5.6.dev1604091249-cp35-cp35m-li
> nux_x86_64.whl  
> PyQt5-5.6.dev1604091249-cp35-cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
> It seems the wheel is built for Python 3.5 but openSuse seems to be at Python 3.4. Providing wheels could mean to support multiple Python versions. Here is a short summary of the various Python versions of my (virtual) Linux machines.
>  
> openSUSE 42.1:		Python 3.4
> Ubuntu 15.10:		Python 3.4
> Mint 17.3:			Python 3.4
> Fedora 23:			Python 3.4
>  
> What was the reason to create Linux wheels for Python 3.5?

...because that's the latest version.

If you are using the distro supplied version of Python then you might as well use the distro version of PyQt.

Phil