[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v4.6 and SIP v4.9 Released

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Montag, 28. September 2009, Serge Montagnac wrote:
> Phil Thompson wrote:
> > PyQt v4.6 and SIP v4.9 have been released and are available from the
> > usual places.
> >
> > This more or less completes the development identified in the (now
> > discarded) roadmap. In particular it means that QString and QVariant can
> > be made to disappear completely. This is the default if you are using
> > Python v3. Python v2 retains the old behaviour (for obvious compatibility
> > reasons) but you can select the new behaviour using the new sip.setapi()
> > call. All the examples will still run under Python v2 and v3.
> >
> > See the respective NEWS files for the details.
> >
> > Phil
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>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Standard report ... ;-(  more precisely:
> linux mandriva cooker distrib
> after upgrading and eric4 launch :
>
> [serge at dualstar]$ eric4
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 47, in
> <module>
>      from KdeQt.KQApplication import KQApplication
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eric4/KdeQt/__init__.py", line
> 20, in <module>
>      import Preferences
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eric4/Preferences/__init__.py", line
> 26, in <module>
>      from PyQt4 import Qsci
> RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v6.0 but the PyQt4.Qsci
> module requires API v5.0
>

Seems the Mandriva people forgot to update/regenerate the QScintilla Python 
bindings. This is a problem that happened several times with other distros in 
the past. Please let them know.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de