[Slackbuilds-users] qt5 is sorely in need of an update

[Larry Hajali]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 9:32 PM, David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 2 June 2018 05:26,
> Dave Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
> > On Saturday 2 June 2018 11:16,
> > Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org> put forth the
> proposition:
> > > > I asked about this a couple of weeks ago, but eg qutebrowser is
> > > > designed for features in the latest qtwebengine and I would like to
> > > > supply a qt5 version that is up-to-date, or at least qt 5.10.1
> > > > anyway.
> > > >
> > > > I've been running 5.10.1 since around the time it was released with
> > > > no issues at all.
> > >
> > > If i recalled correctly, it has something to do with sip package
> shipped
> > > with Slackware which doesn't meet the minimum requirement for newer
> > > PyQt5 which relies on Qt5-webkit and eventually Qt5 package.
> >
>
Yes, this is the reason qt5 hasn't been updated.  PyQt5 can only be updated
to
5.7 because the sip package is too old for new PYQt5 packages.


> > Ah right. Qutebrowser uses python3-sip/python3-PyQt5 so I haven't hit
> > that problem.
> >
> > How about a separate sip package for python2 that can co-exist with
> > the stock version? It may be possible.
> >
>
Possibly, however, I don't have the time to investigate this.  If someone
wants to
own that investigation and create a package, than I'm more than happy to
update
qt5/PyQt5 packages.

--Larry
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