Some thoughts on Python packaging from the BSD folks

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/pep-517-python-packagings-new-world-order/

On Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 2:59:32 PM UTC-5 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:

> I don't know for sure about the Mac (why it would be different, I mean),  
> but you want to install "pyqt6", not "qt".  You should also install 
> "PyQt6-WebEngine", for the ViewRendered3 plugin to work completely.  I 
> don't know if that has finally gotten into the requirements list or not.
>
> On Windows and Linux, installing Leo also installs pyqt6 (or pyqt5, which 
> will also work; correspondingly you also should install PyQtWebEngine).  I 
> don't know if it needs to be compiled  during installation on a Mac or not, 
> but the compilation might not have worked for some reason.
>
> On Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 2:34:20 PM UTC-5 Geoff Evans wrote:
>
>> (Sorry; forgot to say this is in MacOS)
>>
>> On Sunday 11 February 2024 at 16:03:48 UTC-3:30 Geoff Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Edward, I tried that and got further than I did 2 weeks ago.  
>>> "pip install leo" apparently works but when I then type  "leo" I get
>>> Can not load the requested gui: qt
>>> Then when I try "pip install qt" I get "ERROR: No matching distribution 
>>> found for qt".  What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Cheers    geoff
>>>
>>> On Sunday 11 February 2024 at 08:27:39 UTC-3:30 Edward K. Ream wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have deleted the ill-fated 6.7.7.1 release from Leo's PyPi page 
>>>> <https://pypi.org/project/leo/>.
>>>>
>>>> pip install leo should work again as before.
>>>>
>>>> Issue #3767 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/3767> now 
>>>> suggests supporting pip install -r requirements.txt
>>>> as an easy way to install requirements *from within a cloned GitHub 
>>>> repo*.
>>>>
>>>> All comments and questions are welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Edward
>>>>
>>>

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