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[Phil Thompson]

On 30/09/2020 16:41, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Am 29.09.20 um 20:08 schrieb Kyle Altendorf:
>> On 2020-09-29 13:40, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>> On 29/09/2020 18:09, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>>>> Hi Phil,
>>>> 
>>>> PyPI seems to have lifted the size limit for wheel files. This 
>>>> raises
>>>> the question if you intend to include the Qt tools needed for
>>>> development (designer, linguist and a few more) in PyQt6 like it was
>>>> in the good old PyQt5 days. I am asking because PySide2 wheel do so
>>>> and PyQt5/6 should not lag behind.
>>> 
>>> I think it's dumb to include development tools in what is supposed to
>>> be a runtime environment. A separate package would be better.
>> 
>> pyqt5-tools now supports Windows and Linux anyways.  I haven't figured 
>> out the Qt application dynamic library dependence detection on macOS 
>> yet, in case anyone wanted to help out with that.  Phil, if you were 
>> interested in providing something like this officially, I'm all for 
>> it.  The only thing I bring beyond the packaging is the exception 
>> dialog for Designer which would be nice to integrate in PyQt proper in 
>> some form.  Well, I guess also a few command line arguments to help 
>> out with adding your code paths etc when launching the tools.
>> 
> If pyqt5-tools will be maintained for the foreseeable future that
> would be adequate for me. The Qt tools eric uses are the following
> 
>  * designer
>  * linguist
>  * assistant (optionally)
>  * qcollectiongenerator
>  * qhelpgenerator
>  * lrelease
> 
> Support for macOS would be good but I doubt, I will be able to test
> eric on that platform for a long time anymore because my Mac is of old
> age and doesn't get updates anymore.

Shouldn't such a package also include QtCreator? :)

Phil