RHEL 8 support

[Phil Thompson]

Thanks for the offer. I'm taking baby steps with moving stuff to GitHub 
- PyQt will be a while yet.

Phil

On 21/12/2024 14:40, Grzegorz Bokota wrote:
> 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