[PyQt] Roadmap, Future Releases etc.

[Phil Thompson]

On 25 Jan 2016, at 6:16 am, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
> 
> * Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> [2016-01-24 12:25:21 +0000]:
> SIP v4
>> ------
>> 
>> SIP v4.18 will be released soon. v4.18.x will be the last series of
>> releases (ie. there will be no v4.19). This release is expected to
>> support the generation of Python type hint stub files.
> 
> You mentioned you don't know yet whether this will replace XML
> generation or if both will coexist. Any new information on that?

They will coexist in SIP v4. The plan is that the type hints stub files will replace both the XML and QScintilla .api file generation in SIP v5. However I remain to be convinced about aspects of stub files.

Phil