PyQt6 and SIP v6 Snapshots Available

[Phil Thompson]

On 17/11/2020 17:20, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:30:52PM +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> On 17/11/2020 15:37, Florian Bruhin wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:06:42PM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> > > PyQt6 and SIP v6 snapshots are now available on their respective
>> > > download
>> > > pages.
>> > >
>> > > Before you get too excited, PyQt6 currently builds against Qt5 but
>> > > does
>> > > include the planned incompatibilities with PyQt5 (summarised on the
>> > > download
>> > > page).
>> >
>> > It looks like this has changed in the meantime (despite the website
>> > saying "at the moment it builds against Qt v5", I get "sip-build: Qt v6
>> > is required, not v5.15.2").
>> >
>> > Is there a place I can get the latest PyQt6 snapshot which still builds
>> > against Qt5? I'd like to prepare as much as I can for Qt 6, but at the
>> > moment still can't test it, because QtWebEngine will only be available
>> > around Qt 6.1 or 6.2:
>> > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63235?focusedCommentId=533371&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-533371
>> 
>> Sorry, no.
>> 
>> The current state is that QtCore has been ported and builds without
>> warnings. It's disappointing to see how little is in Qt v6.0.
> 
> I got my hands on an older snapshot and also tried the current one with
> the Qt version check removed - but whatever I do, I get:
> 
>   sip-build: 'sip-module' must be set
> 
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download mentions:
> "To build the sip module for PyQt6, run: sip-module --project 
> PyQt6.sip"
> but that doesn't actually work.
> 
> Assuming that it should actually say "sip-module --project PyQt6-sip
> PyQt6.sip", that doesn't show an error, but also doesn't seem to do
> anything. I've tried running with --sdist and installing the resulting
> sdist, but sip-build still gives me the same error. What am I missing?

Are you using the latest SIP v6 and PyQt-builder snapshots?

Phil