Hi Alan, reporting this is no problem, disabling PyQt4 is of course automatic ;). More importantly, your "quest" has shown that we are currently stuck wrt PyQt4 on this platform.
Well, that clarifies that. Thanks very much for investigating this. I can now proceed with the other issues. Regards, Arjen 2017-08-10 11:39 GMT+02:00 Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>: > On 2017-08-10 10:33+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> I tried that, but "pkgfile pyqtconfig.py" simply returns nothing. I >> specifically checked if it would list the packages a file is part of >> even if that package is not present and indeed it does list the >> packages in question. >> >> So, my conclusion is that at this moment there is no package available >> that will bring in pyqtconfig.py. > > > Hi Arjen: > > I am glad to hear my suggestion of using pkgfile generally works > according to your tests, but > sorry to hear it finds no pyqtconfig.py in any MinGW-w64/MSYS2 package. > >>>> I have installed the following packages that are related to this: >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-pyqt4-common 4.11.4-2 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-python3 3.5.2-2 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-numpy 1.11.1-1 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-pip 8.1.2-2 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-pyqt4 4.11.4-2 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-setuptools 28.6.0-1 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-sip 4.18-1 >>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-qt4 4.8.7-4 > > > For Debian Jessie, I have the following result from the apt-file command > (the Debian equivalent of pkgfile). > > python3-pyqt4: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyQt4/pyqtconfig.py > > That is for python3-pyqt4 version 4.11.2 so it is likely not that much > older than your 4.11.4 version above. > > I have since discovered that the lack of pyqtconfig.py > is due to a packaging issue in mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-pyqt4 that you > installed above. > > <http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/build_system.html> > indicates that the whole pyqtconfig.py approach has been deprecated > since version 4.10. That webpage has this further comment: > > "Note that the pyqtconfig module is only created if you use > configure.py and not if you use configure-ng.py." > > Furthermore, > <https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-pyqt4/PKGBUILD> > shows configure-ng.py is used to build the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 package so > that is the reason that pyqtconfig.py is missing from the > mingw-w64-pyqt4 package. > > For now, I suggest you report this packaging issue at > <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/issues>, and disable the pyqt4 > component of PLplot on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform until this issue > is fixed. > > Of course, since the pyqtconfig module is deprecated, we should change > PLplot to use its modern alternative (whatever that might be). But > that is likely quite a long-term project, and meanwhile it would be > good if MinGW-w64/MSYS2 followed Debian's packaging lead by continuing > to support the pyqtconfig module by using configure.py rather than > configure-ng.py to build the mingw-w64-pyqt4 package. > > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
