[PyQt] ANN: SIP v4.14.7 Released

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:21:33 PM Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:40:25 -0400, Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Monday, June 17, 2013 10:13:32 AM Phil Thompson wrote:
> >> SIP v4.14.7 has been released. This is a minor functional release but
> 
> is
> 
> >> required by PyQt v5.
> > 
> > It would be nice if new SIP versions that introduce a new major API
> > version
> > number weren't described as a "minor functional release".  It seems to
> 
> me
> 
> > that
> > incompatible API changes are rather more than that.
> 
> They are not incompatible API changes, they are incompatible ABI changes -
> an implementation detail.

Since we (Debian/Ubuntu) distribute binaries that make use of the ABI, it's a 
non-trivial one for us.  We have to rebuild the relevant packages each time 
this happens.

Scott K