[PyQt] Building PyQt on Windows; problems generating the C++ code

[Phil Thompson]

On 5 Apr 2017, at 12:34 pm, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Phil Thompson wrote:
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>> ...because you don't have a time machine. The version of PyQt is only loosely related to the version of Qt. If you are using the latest version of SIP then use the latest version of PyQt.
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> Hm, okay... But I'm stuck with Qt 5.6 for now: which version of sip fits PyQt 5.6.1? The version numbers don't match up.

You may be stuck with Qt v5.6 but you shouldn't be stuck with PyQt v5.6.1., see...

http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/introduction.html#an-explanation-of-version-numbers

If you really are stuck with that version of PyQt then the contemporary version of sip was v4.18.

Phil