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

Thomas Vincent thomas.vincent at esrf.fr
Tue Mar 7 19:43:37 GMT 2017


Yes, it fixed the issue for me, thanks!

Thomas

On 07.03.2017 17:17, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 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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