[PyQt] Re: Problem with latest PyQt4 snapshot

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:42:47 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 22. September 2009, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:47:00 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
>>
>> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
>> > Hi Phil,
>> >
>> > pyuic4 of the latest snapshot is a bit buggy. It does wrap the value
>> > set
>> > via
>> > QObject.setProperty(...) into a QVariant. That makes code generated
>> > with
>> > this
>> > pyuic incompatible with older PyQt4 versions.
>>
>> pyuic doesn't guarantee that it will generate code that will work with
an
>> earlier version of PyQt that it is a part of. Otherwise it would be
>> difficult to introduce new features.
>>
>> If you don't have control over the version of PyQt your users are using
>> then you should run pyuic as part of your installation process (or
>> dynamically load the .ui files).
>>
>> Phil
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> 
> That is too bad and pyuic didn't do that in the past.

Yes it did, it just doesn't happen very often and only when necessary. uic
is the same.

> It probably means,
> that 
> I won't do eric4 development using PyQt 4.6 until the day I'll switch to 
> Python 3.

Phil