[PyQt] Re: Problem with latest PyQt4 snapshot

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 22. September 2009, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 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
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Currently the only issue I came across was the one I described in my original 
mail. Would it be possible to add a commandline switch to add backward 
compatibility?

Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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