On 07/03/2017 14:38, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
Hi Tim,
The reason setuptools can't process your package is because setuptools
itself doesn't yet know how to install wheels[1] which pip knows how to
install, and PyQT5 is only available as wheels on PyPI (the files with
`.whl` extension in the `simple` URL you linked).
[1] https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/78
The reason why setuptools can install "requests" or "simplejson" is that
their pages contain `.tar.gz` files with the source distributions beside
the `.whl` files.
Incidentally, there are PyQT5 source distributions, and they're
available in their own website[2].
IMO they should be present in PyPI as well.
(Though those archive names with `_gpl` in the middle might confuse
setuptools, and they might prefer to deal with "Could not find suitable
distribution" error message than some obscure compilation error arising
from missing system packages).
[2] https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5/
Thanks, Leo. That was a much simple explanation than I'd been
considering! I didn't think to look at the output for requests etc. Now
that I do, it's clearly building eggs from sdists.
Knowing this, I have ways forward. (This is actually about the mu editor
which is aimed at teachers and other less techie people:
https://github.com/mu-editor/mu)
Thanks again for your help
TJG
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