[PyQt] installing sip on os x with canopy

[Phil Thompson]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:17:15 -0500, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:13:34 -0500, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Shahar Shani-Kadmiel
>>>> Error: SIP requires Python to be built as a framework
>>>
>>> I would also like to ask if there are suggestions or possible
>>> workarounds. I would like to extend my project to use some GPU
>>> libraries that ship with Continuum IO's Anaconda distribution, which
>>> is apparently not available as a framework.
>>
>> Unfortunately I can't remember why this condition was imposed. Try
>> removing the test in siputils.py and seeing what difference it makes.
> 
> Thank you, Phil. In snapshot-5e5fdf4cc35c, I commented lines 1564 and
> 1565 in siputils.py and was able to build and install SIP. I was also
> able to install PyQt-4.10.3 (on Mavericks, no less, by linking with a
> qt4 library installed via macports).

Where you able to use Qt Designer with a Python plugin? In particular
could you run the plugin.py Designer example?

Phil