[PyQt] PyQt5-5.8.1 wheel does not install on macOS for python3.6

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Tue Mar 7 16:17:09 GMT 2017


On 7 Mar 2017, at 1:19 pm, Thomas Vincent <thomas.vincent at esrf.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I could not install PyQt5-5.8.1 wheel on MacOS for Python3.6.
> 
> This seems to come from the sip requirement in the wheel METADATA file:
> 
> In previous PyQt5 macOS wheel (version 5.8) it contains: "Requires-Dist: sip (>=4.19.1)".
> Whereas in PyQt5-5.8.1 macOS wheel it contains: "Requires-Dist: sip (4.19)" which is not available for python3.6 on MacOS.
> Is this change to an older version of sip on purpose, or can the new version of PyQt5 use sip >=4.19.1 as well so it would work for python3.6?

Hmm, looks like a pip bug - maybe because of my habit of leaving out the '.0' in releases.

I've uploaded new wheels which hopefully fix the problem.

Thanks,
Phil


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