[PyQt] pip vs apt-get install

[Julien Duponchelle]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:20 PM <scalet at yebu.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> sorry for starting a discussion being a little off topic at
> the very beginning already.
>
> It is a more generic python question,
> but I think PyQt(5) is a good example.
>
> Ubuntu:
> Normally when installing new python modules, I go that road:
> When I find it in the apt repository (standard) and I do not
> have a very urgent reason to have a bleeding edge version)
> I will use this. If not, I do a pip3 install. If not even
> available for pip ... oke, that's another story.
>
> I feel this way, I get the most stable system.
>
> I would appreciate your comments on the subject!
>
> (Same with MacOSX, here using brew rather than apt-get)
>
> Best,
> Karl.
>

You have only wheel for Windows and Mac on pip (it's a limitation of wheel)
this mean apt-get is still the best way to install.

For mac I will now use the wheel instead of the brew version (even if I
love brew) for multiple reasons:
* the brew package is compiled for a specific version of OSX and will fail
on older version (if you want to freeze the application)
* brew is always the last version, with pip and virtualenv you can have
different versions by project

Best
Julien
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