On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:01:32 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have finally managed to correctly patch configure-ng.py to have all > the debian configury changes as well as to correctly find multi-arch > paths on Debian/Ubuntu systems and successfully compile pyqt4 > 227b3c0affb4 snapshot against Qt5 (Raring) with all modules that are > available for Qt5. > > My packaging branch is here: > lp:~xnox/ubuntu/raring/python-qt4/qt5 > > And the binary packages are available from my PPA: > https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/+archive/scratch/+packages > > I am hoping to land thin into ubuntu proper early next cycle (approx. > late may / early june). > > I have two questions: > > * What is upstream preference for a package name?
I don't care. > - given that everything will not switch to qt5 overnight we need to > keep python-qt4 compiled against qt4, yet we want to start providing > qt5 variant. Will pyqt5 be source incompatible with python-qt4-qt5? Yes. PyQt5 should be considered a completely different package to PyQt4. They will be able to be installed side-by-side. > * How to handle co-installing qt4 & qt5 variants of pyqt? > Given that currently pyqt4 uses PyQt4 name-space regardless if it's > compiled against qt4 or qt5. A good question that doesn't have a good answer. The Qt4 and Qt5 variants of PyQt4 are incompatible and cannot be installed at the same time for the same Python interpreter. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
