[PyQt] Provide metadata for source installs

[Cody Scott]

You can manually create the .dist-info see here.

http://www.niladicpodcast.com/blog/2017/8/install-pyqt5-inside-a-virtual-environment/#bonus-1


On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:33 PM, André <pyqt at andre4all.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> can you provide some metadata file (like egg-info or dist-info) when
> installing pyqt from source?
>
> Currently an installed pyqt package is not recognized as intalled by pip
> which makes it difficult to use it as a requirement in setup.py.
>
> The wheel distribution provides the metadata but that brings all the Qt
> library with it which is not usefull if you want to use the packages form
> your Linux Distribution.
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