On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:32:33PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > What are these things that aren't pip-installable and why isn't the > solution to fix that?
Things that are not pip-installable that I've personally missed include: - pygame (there are a bunch of tickets in their bug tracker, and upstream is working slowly to fix them, just ... very slowly) - pygobject (plus you need gobject-introspection files for all the libraries you want to actually use, like GLib, Pango, Cairo, and GTK itself, and those aren't on PyPI either) > We've spent a huge amount of effort on reaching the point where pretty > much everything *can* be made pip installable. Heck, *PyQt5*, which is > my personal benchmark for a probably-totally-unpackageable package, > announced last week that they now have binary wheels on pypi for all > of Win/Mac/Linux: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt5/5.6 Doesn't seem to work for me, with pip 8.1.1 on a 64-bit Linux machine: $ pip install pyqt5 Collecting pyqt5 Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pyqt5 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for pyqt5 Marius Gedminas -- Shift happens. -- Doppler
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