[PyQt] PyQt4 and Qt5

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:18:36 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2012, 09:30:06 Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:44:08 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
>> 
>> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I would like to know the plan about the PyQt support for Qt 5.0
because
>> 
>> I
>> 
>> > would like to start to make eric5 compatible with Qt 5 as soon as
>> 
>> possible
>> 
>> > (if
>> > that is possible). In order for that, I would need support for these
>> > modules.
>> > 
>> > PyQt4.QtCore
>> > PyQt4.QtGui
>> > PyQt4.QtNetwork
>> > PyQt4.QtWebKit
>> > PyQt4.QtHelp
>> > PyQt4.QtSql
>> > PyQt4.QtSvg
>> > PyQt4.uic
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > Detlev
>> 
>> The plan is that PyQt4 will build against Qt5. v4.9.4 will build
against
>> Qt5-alpha (QtCore and QtGui modules only). I am currently working on
>> updating to Qt5-beta1. The Qt4 and Qt5 APIs are very similar, but not
>> identical. 
> 
> Do you have a list of differences at hand? Such a list could ease
building
> an 
> application, that works under Qt5 and Qt4 (maybe by having some kind of 
> portability layer).

You can grep the .sip files for Qt_5_0_0 but even most don't actually
affect the API. It's too early to tell if a porting guide would be any use.

Phil