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Unofficial PyQt5 via PyPI for Python 2.7 64-bit on Windows
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Linux support #9

Open fabiencastan opened 9 years ago

mottosso commented 9 years ago

Compiling on Linux is pretty straightforward, and there's a guide for it in the Wiki at the moment:

The only crux I found about getting it accessible via PyPI is my lack of understanding for how to distribute to multiple platforms.

Currently, the PyPI package is a complete hack that doesn't include any platform-metadata and thus installs on Linux, but won't work as it's compiled for Windows.

It would be great to get it up for Linux on PyPI however, and any help would be appreciated.

ethanhs commented 9 years ago

Could you add a platform check for the interim that tells users that the binaries are windows only?

mottosso commented 9 years ago

@IronManMark20 That would be really great.

It should be relatively straightforward, possibly by simply raising an exception in setup.py when os.name isn't equal to nt.

Pull-requests are welcome!