From d998900a3a4b24856c0bdc1b7083bac3bc2eaa84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Veronica K. B. Olsen" <1619840+vkbo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 13:44:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Pin some dependency versions now that some of the limits are
 known

---
 README.md               | 6 ++++++
 docs/source/started.txt | 5 +++++
 requirements.txt        | 6 +++---
 setup.py                | 6 +++---
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a69a866b..bf1efa1c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ python3 -m pip install lxml
 python3 -m pip install pyenchant
 ```
 
+PyQt/Qt should be at least 5.2.1, but ideally 5.10 or higher for nearly all features to work.
+Exporting to markdown requires PyQt/Qt 5.14.
+There are no known minimum for lxml, but the code was originally written with 4.2.
+The optional spell check library must be at least 3.0.0 to work with Windows.
+On Linux, 2.0.0 also works fine.
+
 If no external spell checking tool is installed, novelWriter will use a basic spell checker based on standard Python package `difflib`.
 Currently, only English dictionaries are available for this spell checker, but more can be added to the `nw/assets/dict` folder.
 See the [nw/assets/dict/README.md](README.md) file in that folder for how to generate more dictionaries.
diff --git a/docs/source/started.txt b/docs/source/started.txt
index 5c279e14..c27ff27e 100644
--- a/docs/source/started.txt
+++ b/docs/source/started.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ The following are optional, but recommended:
 
 * ``pyenchant`` for spell checking
 
+PyQt/Qt should be at least 5.2.1, but ideally 5.10 or higher for nearly all features to work.
+Exporting to markdown requires PyQt/Qt 5.14.
+There are no known minimum for lxml, but the code was originally written with 4.2.
+The optional spell check library must be at least 3.0.0 to work with Windows.
+On Linux, 2.0.0 also works fine.
 
 Running novelWriter
 ===================
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 08fc42c3..c50e7b68 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-pyqt5
-lxml
-pyenchant
+pyqt5>=5.2.1
+lxml>=4.2.0
+pyenchant>=3.0.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f9736fee..9a59bccf 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ setuptools.setup(
     ],
     python_requires = ">=3.6",
     install_requires = [
-        "pyqt5",
-        "lxml",
-        "pyenchant",
+        "pyqt5>=5.2.1",
+        "lxml>=4.2.0",
+        "pyenchant>=3.0.0",
     ],
 )