[PyQt] Building the QScintilla-1.73 PyQt4 bindings

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Montag, 26. November 2007, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2007, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > On Monday 26 November 2007, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> > > Or is this a case where I should either a) remove all the distro
> > > packages and compile everything myself or b) just let it be and wait
> > > for some future version of said distro which includes a newer sip and
> > > possibly everything else too?
> >
> > That's up to you.
> >
> > Your installation is obviously broken as sip and sipconfig.py are from
> > different versions, but I can't say how it got into that situation.
>
> Ok. It wouldn't be the first time that Kubuntu packages are a
> bit "interesting" in a non-standard way.
>
> Thank you for clearing it all up, now I know what goes wrong. It all means
> basically that I'm stuck with whatever version was used to compile PyQt4 as
> the sip version information comes from there.
>
> I think I'll stay with Emacs and the default Qt tools for now and test
> Eric4 at some later time. :)

If the KUbuntu package is a bit "interesting" in a non-standard way I would 
rather recommend to compile all the stuff yourself. That ensures, that you 
have a correct sip/PyQt4/QScintilla2 setup on your system. Installing eric4 
thereafter is just a snap.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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