Help with Eric6-21.5 and PyQt6

Jamie Riotto jamie.riotto at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 21:17:37 BST 2021


Will do. Thanks for the explanation...

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 12:50 PM <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:

> eric6 needs PyQt5 to be run but supports development of PyQt6
> applications. I am in the process of porting eric to PyQt6. This variant
> will be called eric7. If you would like to help debug and beta test it,
> just get the eric sources via the code repository, switch to the eric7
> branch and install it.
>
> Detlev
>
> Am 01.06.2021 19:53 schrieb Jamie Riotto <jamie.riotto at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
> I see that as of eric6-21.2 that Eric supports PyQt6. However, I'm am
> trying to do a new
> installation on Win10 / Python3.9. I have installed PyQt6 via pip. I have
> tried to install
> eric6-21 both via the zip download and python install.py
> and
> via python install -m pip eric-ide
> and in both cases, eric doesn't recognize the PyQt6 installation and
> instead fetches a PyQt5 wheel and continues.
>
> Is there a way to force it to use PyQt6?
> Thanks so much - jamie
>
>
>
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