[PyKDE] Running PyQt3 and PyQt4?

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 10 March 2006 6:11 am, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:19:28 +0000
>
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:10 pm, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:41:39 +0000
> > >
> > > Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > To run them side by side you must install PyQt3, SIP and PyQt4
> > > > snapshots. Current PyQt3 and SIP snapshots are quite stable - PyQt
> > > > 3.16 and SIP 4.4 will be released in the next week or so.
> > >
> > > I just remind you of this patch:
> >
> > It is the one outstanding thing on the PyQt3/SIP TODO list for the next
> > release. I haven't forgotten it.
>
> I have a related remark with respect to PyQt4's pyqt_config.py.
> The _pkg_config dictionary for PyQt4 gets initialized as:
> _pkg_config = {
>     ..
>     'pyqt_mod_dir':       '/home/packer/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages',
>     ..
>     'pyqt_sip_dir':       '/home/packer/usr/share/sip',
>     ..
> }
>
> This is slightly inconvenient for add-on packages because the modules have
> been installed in /home/packer/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyQt4 and
> the sip files are in /home/packer/usr/share/sip/PyQt4 (PyQwt needs special
> cases when built for PyQt3 or PyQt4).

As I've said before, I haven't even started working on changes to the build 
system to support external packages built on PyQt4.

> >From feedback it seems that SIP-4.4 (contrary to SIP-4.3 and earlier) does
> > not
>
> parse files with \r\n (Windows) line separators.  Is this a bug or a
> feature?

I don't think I've made any changes in this area.

Phil