[PyKDE] Next Releases of SIP, PyQt and QScintilla

[Ulrich Berning]

Phil Thompson schrieb:

>I plan to release new versions of SIP, PyQt and QScintilla some time next
>week. The current snapshots can be treated as release candidates.
>
>There have been a number of subtle changes under the covers - now would be
>a good time to test with your favorite apps.
>
>QScintilla translations need updating again for the new batch file lexer -
>blame Detlev ;)
>
>Phil
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I have a minor wish for the final release (if it's not too late).
PyQt's configure.py script sets opt_qsciincdir to the default value 
sipcfg.qt_inc_dir (this is normally $QTDIR/include). This is the 
directory, where configure.py looks for the qscintilla header files. I 
don't like to pollute Qt's include directory with a number of non-Qt 
header files, so I always put them into a subdirectory named "Qext" in 
$QTDIR/include and use the -n flag when running configure.py. I do the 
same for the qwt header files ("Qwt") and for the header files of my own 
widget library ("Qds").

Phil, what do you think about changing the default value of 
opt_qsciincdir to os.path.join(sipcfg.qt_inc_dir, "Qext")?
What do other people think about it?

Another pure cosmetic point (and not for the next release) is the name 
"qext" for the module containing the bindings for qscintilla. I think 
this name is inappropriate. At least for me, this name implies "a 
collection of (Py)Qt related extensions", but in fact it contains only 
the qscintilla classes. Wouldn't it be better to rename this to "qsci" 
(and "Qsci" for the include directory) in a future release? What are 
your opinions?


Ulli