[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v5.8 and SIP v4.19.1 Released

[Sibylle Koczian]

Am 17.02.2017 um 15:48 schrieb Phil Thompson:
>> I can't get the QPSQL driver to work any more.
>>
>> Versions of everything: OS is Windows 10, Python 3.5.2, PostgreSQL
>> 9.6.1, PyQt 5.7 installed from PyPi, all of it 64 bit.
>
> The old PyQt installers contained a locally built copy of Qt that had
> the database specific drivers statically compiled with the Qt SQL
> plugins. The new wheels use the Qt builds provided by the Qt project
> - those builds use the database specific drivers but don't include
> them. You need to obtain and install them yourself - usually by
> installing the database package itself.
>

Thank you for your explanation - but I don't fully understand it: 
"installing the database package itself" - does that mean the PostgreSQL 
server? That is installed and runs on the same machine I'm trying to use 
QtSql on. And what exactly are the "database specific drivers"?

The subdirectory "...\Qt\plugins\sqldrivers" of my PyQt installation 
contains the file qsqlpsql.dll. That is the right plugin, isn't it? Do I 
have to rebuild it using the instructions in the Qt documentation, to 
tell the plugin about the location of PostgreSQL on my machine? But that 
can't be right: it would mean repeating this with every update of either 
PyQt or PostgreSQL???

Please clarify - I'm quite inexperienced with compiling and building 
things myself on Windows.

By the way, psycopg2 connects to my databases out of the box. So I can 
use SQLAlchemy with PyQt5 - but QtSql would be simpler.

Greetings
Sibylle