Every one of my fleet of Linux VMs has finally got PyQt 6.6, so that's favorable. No one can prove that *every* distro will have it - there are just too many variations - but so be it. I don't know about ARM versions and don't have a way to check, but I suppose they are still not a likely host for Leo.
On Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 8:17:29 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > I am now working on PR #3828 > <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/pull/3828>: require Qt 6.6+. > This PR is experimental and possibly controversial. > > > *The good news* > > > - leoQt.py contains no conditional imports. > > - leoQt.py defines all constants unambiguously. > > - No Qt-related switches exist*.* Hurray! Removing these switches > (especially isQt5 and isQt6) simplifies code throughout Leo. > > > *The controversial news* > > > Four Qt modules no longer exist in Qt6: *phonon*, *QtDeclarative*, > *QtWebKit*, and *QtWebKitWidgets*. As a result, I have retired five of > Terry Brown's plugins. There is no obvious way to make these plugins work > with Qt6. > > > *Summary* > > > PR #3828 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/pull/3828> removes all > vestiges of Qt5 from Leo's codebase. Now is probably a good time to move to > Qt6. Leo 6.7.8 installs only Qt6 without anyone complaining :-) > > > A one-line change to requirements.txt installs all necessary Qt6 modules. > There is no need for conditional code in leoQt.py. > > > Five plugins are incompatible with Qt6 and have been retired to the attic: > *notebook.py*, *richtext.py*, and three "editpane" plugins: > *pandownview.py*, *webengineview.py*, and *webkitview.py*. These plugins > are no great loss. They do not work with the typical installation of Leo > 6.7.8. > > > Please tell me what you think. > > > Edward > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/43c0e3d7-615b-42a7-91e0-3153986d9cd7n%40googlegroups.com.
