PyQT5 legacy version support

[Phil Thompson]

On 11/09/2020 19:04, Kyle Altendorf wrote:
> Wheels were only published ever for Python 3 as I recall.

Correct.

> And source
> distributions were only available on PyPI since 5.14 I think.

Because earlier versions were not sdists.

> You can
> get development snapshots on the Riverbanks site, but that's only 
> latest
> and only development.
> 
> https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5
> 
> But...  you can get old stuff from sourceforge it seems.
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt5/PyQt-5.5.1/
> 
> So basically, you can do something but you are asking for trouble when
> you have old compiled libraries that you can't rebuild... :|  
> (referring
> to your own .so)

You should also use the latest version of PyQt5 when building from 
source...

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html#understanding-the-correct-version-to-install

...however PyQt6 will only support Python v3.6 and later.

Phil