Custom Widgets Pro — PyPI pointer

Custom Widgets Pro is a commercial package. It is distributed to licence holders from customwidgets.org, not from PyPI.

This directory builds the small pointer package that occupies the PyPI name. Installing it does not give you Pro — it tells you where Pro comes from.

Why this exists

Publishing the real wheel on public PyPI meant anyone could install it and use every Pro widget without paying: the entitlement check only warns, by design, so eval and CI stay importable. A licence check inside a freely downloadable artifact is not a paywall. The real wheel is now served by GET /api/downloads/pro-wheel, behind an active licence.

Versioning rule (important)

The pointer must always be lower than the real wheel:

PyPI pointer   1.1.1
gated wheel    1.2.0

A licence holder who installs the real 1.2.0 and later runs pip install --upgrade QT-PyQt-PySide-Custom-Widgets-Pro must NOT be pulled back to the pointer. Because PyPI's highest version stays below the gated one, pip sees nothing newer and leaves the real install alone. Keep it that way: when you ship a new gated wheel, bump it above the pointer, not level with it.

Build

python -m build --wheel        # run inside pointer/