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[Detlev Offenbach]

Am 30.09.20 um 19:28 schrieb Phil Thompson:
> On 30/09/2020 16:41, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>> Am 29.09.20 um 20:08 schrieb Kyle Altendorf:
>>> On 2020-09-29 13:40, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>>> On 29/09/2020 18:09, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>>>>> Hi Phil,
>>>>>
>>>>> PyPI seems to have lifted the size limit for wheel files. This raises
>>>>> the question if you intend to include the Qt tools needed for
>>>>> development (designer, linguist and a few more) in PyQt6 like it was
>>>>> in the good old PyQt5 days. I am asking because PySide2 wheel do so
>>>>> and PyQt5/6 should not lag behind.
>>>>
>>>> I think it's dumb to include development tools in what is supposed to
>>>> be a runtime environment. A separate package would be better.
>>>
>>> pyqt5-tools now supports Windows and Linux anyways.  I haven't 
>>> figured out the Qt application dynamic library dependence detection 
>>> on macOS yet, in case anyone wanted to help out with that.  Phil, if 
>>> you were interested in providing something like this officially, I'm 
>>> all for it.  The only thing I bring beyond the packaging is the 
>>> exception dialog for Designer which would be nice to integrate in 
>>> PyQt proper in some form. Well, I guess also a few command line 
>>> arguments to help out with adding your code paths etc when launching 
>>> the tools.
>>>
>> If pyqt5-tools will be maintained for the foreseeable future that
>> would be adequate for me. The Qt tools eric uses are the following
>>
>>  * designer
>>  * linguist
>>  * assistant (optionally)
>>  * qcollectiongenerator
>>  * qhelpgenerator
>>  * lrelease
>>
>> Support for macOS would be good but I doubt, I will be able to test
>> eric on that platform for a long time anymore because my Mac is of old
>> age and doesn't get updates anymore.
>
> Shouldn't such a package also include QtCreator? :)
... Do you want to tell me something?
>
> Phil

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Detlev Offenbach
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