RHEL 8 support

[Grzegorz Bokota]

Cibiuldwheel maintainer here. I could response on some questions if
simplify and speedup shopping of PyQt wheels.

Regards.
Grzegorz

sob., 21 gru 2024, 15:38 użytkownik Scott Talbert <swt at techie.net> napisał:

> 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
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