[PyQt] PyQt releases with private SIP?

[Elvis Stansvik]

2017-02-19 14:00 GMT+01:00 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>:
> On 19 Feb 2017, at 10:11 am, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2017-02-19 2:30 GMT+01:00 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>:
>>> On 18 Feb 2017, at 8:31 pm, Terekhov, Mikhail <termim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2/18/17 13:34, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Feb 2017, at 6:23 pm, Mikhail Terekhov <termim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now every time new release of SIP and PyQt5 comes out we need to
>>>>>> recompile PyQt4 as well even if it was not changed. Would it be possible
>>>>>> to have PyQt5 release with private SIP? That would make it much easier
>>>>>> to have multiple PyQt versions installed simultaneously. Yes, it is
>>>>>> possible to have separate VE for different versions but too many VEs
>>>>>> quickly becomes VE hell.
>>>>> You only need to recompile PyQt4 if the major version of the ABI changes. That should happen very infrequently.
>>>>>
>>>> In theory that is true, but it happened several times in the past when I updated packages on OBS with new minor releases of PyQt4 and SIP but didn't update QScintilla  and then loading Qsci resulted in segmentation fault until QScintilla package was not recompiled.
>>>
>>> Yes, when the major ABI changes you have to re-compile everything (which should be very infrequently).
>>
>> I'm curious here: Above, Mikhail said he updated to "[...] new *minor*
>> releases of PyQt4 and SIP [...]" (emphasis mine). This should imply
>> there were no major ABI changes, right?
>
> Not at the moment. The ABI version and the sip version are completely unrelated. If I implement Florien's request then that will change.

Aha, I see.

Elvis

>
>> So his QScintilla should not
>> have been broken, right?
>
> Phil