[PyQt] Next Releases of PyQt and SIP

[Giovanni Bajo]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 09:41 +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:42:20 +0200, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com>
> wrote:
> > On 10/16/2009 3:38 PM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> >> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:31:08 +0200, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 10/16/2009 10:10 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> >>>> All outstanding bug reports against PyQt and SIP have been resolved -
> >>>> if
> >>>> you disagree then let me know.
> >>>>
> >>>> I plan to release PyQt v4.6.1 and SIP v4.9.1 early next week.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW, the current PyQt snapshot will build against Qt v4.6-beta1.
> >>> Hi Phil,
> >>>
> >>> I got some GC-related random crashes in a testsuite run after you fixed
> 
> >>> the QApplication destruction. I investigated them enough to see that 
> >>> it's related to invokation of focusPolicy() or other focus-related 
> >>> virtual methods on an already-deleted object, but they are hard to
> track
> >>>
> >>> down and I am not sure whenever I will have a reproduction recipe
> ready.
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything specific to focus stuff that rings a bell to you?
> >> 
> >> No. The obvious source of the problem is the QApplication being deleted
> >> too
> >> soon in relation to some other object.
> > 
> > I delete all top-level widgets, flush all the events 
> > (qApp.processEvents()), and run an explicit gc.collect() pass. I 
> > actually don't know what else to do...
> > 
> > I start to believe that it's a Qt problem rather than a PyQt's one; eg: 
> > some globals somewhere in the focus code that is not reset by 
> > QApplication's destructor and still points to some destroyed object.
> > 
> > I'll have a further look.
> 
> Any progress? I'd prefer to revert to the existing broken behaviour (which
> affects almost nobody) than introduce the potential for random
> crash-on-exit "bugs".

Sorry, no progress at this time.

If you revert it, please send me the patch so that I can test it by
myself and let you know when I have some progress.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo
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