PyQt5 v5.15.4 and PyQt6 v6.0.3 Available for Testing

[Eric Larson]

Although this is probably a "no news is good news" situation, I thought I'd
add at least one explicit +1 that it PyQt5 5.15.4 worked for us
<https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/pull/9012/files> (tested on Ubuntu
Python 3.9 and Windows Python 3.8) using the instructions for pip.

Eric


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:04 PM Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
wrote:

> The website now runs a PyPI server which will be used in the future to
> serve wheels of development snapshots and pre-releases of the next
> stable versions (prior to being uploaded to PyPI at python.org).
> Hopefully this will allow more people to test releases before they get
> committed to python.org. This was part of the motivation for breaking
> the Qt libraries out into separate wheels.
>
> Instructions (ie. what flags to pass to pip) can be found here...
>
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pypi/
>
> PyQt5 v5.15.4 and PyQt6 v6.0.3 both get around the problems with the
> previous releases that resulted in a broken installation after doing an
> upgrade (rather than a clean installation). However note that, after
> upgrading to these latest versions, you will have an unused Qt
> installation lying around. To remove it run...
>
> pip uninstall PyQt5-Qt
>
> ...and similar for PyQtWebEngine etc.
>
> Once I've had enough (positive) feedback I'll push the releases to
> python.org.
>
> Phil
>
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