Missing QtWebKit/QtWebEngine modules

[The-Compiler]

Looks like the stubs for all the QtWebKit and QtWebEngine modules went missing.

[stlehmann]

Yes, PyQt5 doesn't provide them anymore when compiling so I sadly had to remove them at an early stage.

[The-Compiler]

Sorry for the late answer - PyQt5 definitely still has both of those. It looks more like your Qt didn't have them installed, so sip didn't build the .pyi files. I guess ideally we'd somehow get sip to spit out .pyi files without actually having to build the underlying C++ code, but not sure how realistic that is.

[BryceBeagle]

On Ubuntu 18.04 I only get the the following .pyi files to generate:

• QtCore.pyi
• QtDBus.pyi
• QtGui.pyi
• QtNetwork.pyi
• QtOpenGL.pyi
• QtPrintSupport.pyi
• QtSql.pyi
• QtTest.pyi
• QtWidgets.pyi
• QtXml.pyi

But on Arch, with the same PyQt5 source tar, I get everything:

• QtGui.pyi
• QtNfc.pyi
• QtQml.pyi
• QtSql.pyi
• QtSvg.pyi
• QtXml.pyi
• QtCore.pyi
• QtDBus.pyi
• QtHelp.pyi
• QtTest.pyi
• QtQuick.pyi
• QtOpenGL.pyi
• QtWebKit.pyi
• QtNetwork.pyi
• QtSensors.pyi
• QtWidgets.pyi
• QtDesigner.pyi
• QtLocation.pyi
• QtBluetooth.pyi
• QtX11Extras.pyi
• QtSerialPort.pyi
• QtWebChannel.pyi
• QtWebSockets.pyi
• QtNetworkAuth.pyi
• QtPositioning.pyi
• QtXmlPatterns.pyi
• QtPrintSupport.pyi
• QtQuickWidgets.pyi
• QtRemoteObjects.pyi
• QtWebKitWidgets.pyi

[stlehmann]

That's interesting. So maybe we should adjust the Dockerfile to use Arch-Linux instead of Ubuntu. @BryceBeagle as you already got the build going on Arch would you mind adjusting the Dockerfile?

[stlehmann]

PyQt5 definitely still has both of those. It looks more like your Qt didn't have them installed, so sip didn't build the .pyi files.

That might be the case. In the buildenv Dockerfile I install Ubuntus qt5-default package. Do you know how to add QWebKit and QWebEngine on Ubuntu respectively Arch?

[BryceBeagle]

Sure, I'd be glad to look into it.

However, I'm hesitant to use an Arch Linux-based Dockerfile because the distro doesn't make locking versions especially easy. Their repositories don't keep a very long history of packages so the Dockerfile would either need to manually modify PKGBUILDs, or just assume that the latest version of the software is always good enough.

I'll try to get an Ubuntu Dockerfile working, or maybe use something like Alpine, which still updates regularly but also keeps old versions of software, if that's alright with you?

[stlehmann]

Sure that would be great. 👍

[The-Compiler]

On Ubuntu 18.04 I only get the the following .pyi files to generate: [...]

Are you sure the underlying Qt modules (e.g. libqt5webengine5) are installed?

Their repositories don't keep a very long history of packages

They sure do! (the entire history)

[BryceBeagle]

Are you sure the underlying Qt modules (e.g. libqt5webengine5) are installed?

You're right, they weren't installed. I never manually installed them on Arch, but they were optional dependencies of python-pyqt5 that were pulled down

They sure do!

After 6 years of using Arch, how did I not know this existed? 🤦 Guess that shows how often I need to downgrade -- my local cache has always been good enough.

[BryceBeagle]

I opened PR #36 for this

[The-Compiler]

Closing this as #36 was merged - thanks @BryceBeagle!