Re: ReText Python Based Mardown Composer on OpenBSD

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 08:59:44PM -0500, Z Ero wrote:
> Does anyone have experience running ReText on OpenBSD? Anything to
> watch out for when installing or any tips?
>
> Generally Python packages work well on OpenBSD. I am having some
> trouble with this one in terms of missing module(s) / etc.
>
> On a slightly other note I attempted to build Qt5 from ports/x11/qt5
> and that did not work. What is the best way to get a working version
> of qmake(5)?
>
> I need qmake to build a python-qt dependency that ReText apparently
> requires to show live previews (the whole point in running ReText to
> start).
>
> Maybe there is another way to install the missing dependency.
>
> ReText is Python3 based. My system is primarily using Python2 modules.
> It seems that Python3 did not recognize the Py3-Qt5 module required.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I don't know if it is only me but building large complicated ports
> like Qt always seems to be living hell / very little reward for the
> work.

$ pkg_add py3-qt5
$ python3.6
Python 3.6.2 (default, Oct 2 2017, 09:52:18)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible OpenBSD Clang 4.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_400/final)] on
openbsd6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from PyQt5 import QtCore
>>>

It should works also on -current.


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