[PyQt] Potential API break in PyQt4 snapshot

[Phil Thompson]

On 1 Jun 2016, at 12:18 am, Davide Pesavento <pesa at gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Davide Pesavento <pesa at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> A Gentoo Linux user has encountered a compilation failure while
>> building KDE4's kate editor (version 4.14.3) against the latest PyQt4
>> snapshot (version 4.12.dev1605051544).
>> 
>> Is this an unintentional API change in PyQt4, or is kate using
>> undocumented/private APIs? Or something else?
>> 
> 
> So, the following code from qobject.sip is new in PyQt4-4.12.dev
> 
>        #if defined(SIP_PROTECTED_IS_PUBLIC)
>            (sipSelfWasArg ? sipCpp->QObject::connectNotify(sig) :
> sipCpp->connectNotify(sig));
>        #else
>            sipCpp->sipProtectVirt_connectNotify(sig);
>        #endif
> 
> The compiler complains about sipProtectVirt_connectNotify, which means
> SIP_PROTECTED_IS_PUBLIC is *not* defined. This is consistent with the
> fact that sip is invoked without the -P option to generate kate
> bindings.
> 
> Does this ring any bells?

Should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.

Thanks,
Phil