RHEL 8 support

[Scott Talbert]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, Phil Thompson wrote:

> On 20/12/2024 00:14, Greg Couch wrote:
>> Actually, it's a bigger problem.  Red Hat 9 uses glib 2.34.  So it
>> won't install there either.
>> 
>>     -- Greg
>> 
>> On 12/19/24 15:39, Greg Couch wrote:
>>> Is there going to be a (commercial) downloadable version of PyQt 6.8 that 
>>> supports Red Hat 8?   According to 
>>> https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/supported-platforms.html, Red Hat 8 is still 
>>> supported.  But the released PyQt 6.8 requires glibc 2.35 
>>> (manylinux_2_35_x86_64) and Red Hat 8 uses glibc 2.28, so it won't 
>>> install.  I see the same problem with the PyQt6-Qt6 and PyQt6-WebEngine 
>>> downloads.
>>> 
>>>     -- Greg
>
> The only way I can guarantee a wheel will work is to specify a manylinux 
> version that matches the GLIBC of the build system. By "work" I mean it will 
> run once installed (rather than can be installed and run). I've always tried 
> to use Ubuntu when I can (mainly for historical reasons), but that has the 
> disadvantage of tending to use more modern versions of packages.
>
> However, it is quite easy for me to switch the distro to use for the build 
> system so I'll do some testing with Centos 8.

Hi Phil,

Have you considered using cibuildwheel?
https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel

It takes a little bit to set up, but once it's working, it works pretty 
well.

Scott