[PyQt] PyQt/SIP snapshots

[Giovanni Bajo]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:16:31 +0100, David Boddie <david at boddie.org.uk>
wrote:
> On Sat Mar 28 12:57:12 GMT 2009, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:46:48 +0100, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > is this a good moment to test SIP/PyQt snapshots against Qt 4.5.0?
>>
>> Yes. I'm currently working on pyuic4 - everything else should be
>> production
>> ready.
> 
> I've found a couple of issues with PyQt-x11-gpl-4.5-snapshot-20090327
using
> Python 2.5.4:
> 
>  * pyrcc4 now requires you to pass -py2 for Python 2.x code - this breaks
>    existing build environments.

Especially since existing build systems will have to go though hoops to be
compatible with older and newer pyrcc4. The older one doesn't like to be
passed the -py2 option.

> Is there a way that it could figure out
>    which version of Python it is running with and use that to determine
>    what kind of code to generate?

Sounds like a good idea.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo
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