[PyQt] Installing multiple versions of PyQt

Detlev Offenbach detlev at die-offenbachs.de
Wed May 20 18:31:12 BST 2015



On Wednesday 20 May 2015, 10:45:28 Giuseppe Corbelli wrote:
> On 20/05/2015 09:45, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> >>> - Use some kind of containers/chroots instead of VMs.
> >> 
> >> Virtualenv?
> > 
> > That'd basically be my second idea (multiple installs on the same
> > system). However that still means I'll have to manage multiple Qt
> > installs (and multiple PyQt installs which each use the right Qt) on
> > the same system, which might be hard.
> 
> Never tried what I'm talking about but if you just install qt4 and qt5
> systemwide and have different virtualenvs for pyqt4 (its own sip) and pyqt5
> (its own sip) it should not be a PITA.

That is exactly the kind of setup I am using to test eric (my Python IDE) with various (but not 
all) combinations of Qt, PyQt and Python. I needed it because eric is compatible with Python2 
and 3 and PyQt4/Qt4, PyQt4/Qt5 and PyQt5/Qt5.

Regards,
Detlev
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*Detlev Offenbach*
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