Update to the Qt version shipped with PyQt5

[Phil Thompson]

On 05/12/2022 19:00, Carlos Pereira Atencio wrote:
> Based on the latest PyPI release, I believe the latest version of 
> PyQt5-Qt5
> is still 5.15.2:
> https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5-Qt5/
> And the PyQt5.QtCore.QT_VERSION_STR string also indicates PyQt5 5.15.7 
> does
> run 5.15.2.
> 
> I believe there are still some outstanding issues in 5.15.2, like this 
> one:
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2020-December/043463.html
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-88688
> 
> Which means PyQt5 applications in out-of-box Ubuntu 20.04 (and possibly 
> one
> of the Debian versions), still won't run. It sounds like this should be
> fixed by updating Qt5 to something newer, would that be possible?
> Thanks!

The problem is that Qt didn't release 5.15.3 binaries and I gave up 
building Qt from source a long time ago. Given how long ago the release 
was there doesn't seem to be a great need for it. I assume most people 
would use the version of PyQt5 that comes with the distro.

That said, you can use the undocumented pyqt-qt-wheel utility that is 
part of PyQt-builder to create the wheels from a standard Qt 
installation.

Phil