[Qgis-developer] Qt5 support and packages

[Dave Johansen]

RHEL 6 has Qt 4.6 and so in order to build anything from the 2.x series it
has to be built against Qt 5.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2014-September/034458.html

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:

> Hi Paolo,
>
> What is the reason for doing so?
> Which platforms would you think require packages?
>
> Best,
> Matthias
>
>
> On 11/18/2014 08:36 AM, Werner Macho wrote:
>
>> hmm - ah ok - debian testing ..
>> well .. that should become stable somewhere soon (but looking at the
>> arguing about systemd I am not so sure about this)
>> funny that I don't have that specific package available in my install
>> here ..
>> But well, this is LMDE .. probably thats a special case ..
>> thanks for pointing it out
>> regards
>> Werner
>>
>> On 11/18/2014 08:32 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>
>>> Il 18/11/2014 08:29, Werner Macho ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I am not quite sure but at least on debian it looks like that pyqt5
>>>> packages are only
>>>> available built against python3.
>>>> (correct me if I am wrong but I only found python3-pyqt5-* packages ..)
>>>>
>>>> So I assume at least on debian a switch to qt5 would also mean a switch
>>>> to python3 ..
>>>>
>>> aptitude show python-pyqt5
>>> Package: python-pyqt5
>>> New: yes
>>> State: installed
>>> Automatically installed: yes
>>> Version: 5.3.2+dfsg-3
>>> Priority: optional
>>> Section: python
>>> Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team at lists.
>>> alioth.debian.org>
>>> Architecture: amd64
>>> Uncompressed Size: 13.7 M
>>> Depends: python (>= 2.7), python (< 2.8), libc6 (>= 2.14), libqt5core5a
>>> (>= 5.3.0),
>>> libqt5dbus5
>>>           (>= 5.0.2), libqt5designer5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.3.0),
>>> libqt5help5
>>> (>= 5.3.0),
>>>           libqt5network5 (>= 5.3.0), libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.3.0),
>>> libqt5test5 (>=
>>> 5.0.2),
>>>           libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1),
>>> qtbase-abi-5-3-2, sip-api-11.1
>>> Suggests: python-pyqt5-dbg
>>> Description: Python bindings for Qt5
>>>   PyQt5 exposes the Qt5 API to Python. This package contains the
>>> following modules:
>>>   * QtCore
>>>   * QtDBus
>>>   * QtDesigner
>>>   * QtGui
>>>   * QtHelp
>>>   * QtNetwork
>>>   * QtPrintSupport
>>>   * QtTest
>>>   * QtWidgets
>>> Homepage: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/
>>>
>>>
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