[PyQt] ANN: SIP v5.0.0 and PyQt-builder v1.0.0 Released

[Mikhail Terekhov]

On 10/08/2019 01:28 PM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> SIP v5.0.0 and PyQt-builder v1.0.0 have been released and can be
> installed from PyPI.
>
> SIP v4 was released 15 years ago and was only really a code generator.
> It was up to the bindings author to get the generated code compiled
> and turned into something that could be distributed and installed. SIP
> v5 implements a complete extensible build system with which it is easy
> to create sdists and wheels for uploading to PyPI.
>
> There are very few changes to the code generator (so long as you
> aren't using deprecated features) so there should be no need to modify
> your .sip files. Current PyQt snapshots will build with either SIP v4
> or SIP v5. PyQt v5.14 will be built with SIP v5. Therefore, migrating
> to SIP v5 should be all about changing (and hopefully significantly
> simplifying) the way you build your bindings rather than making
> changes to the bindings themselves.
>
> If features are added to SIP v5 then they will also be backported to
> new releases of SIP v4. However when SIP v6 is released (in mid-2020)
> support for SIP v4 will be dropped and the old configure.py build
> scripts will be removed from the next major release of PyQt (which
> will probably be PyQt v5.15). In other words Linux distro packagers
> should have at least 9 months to migrate to SIP v5.
>
> SIP v5 does not support Python v2.
>
> PyQt-builder is an extension to the SIP v5 buildsystem used to build
> PyQt and projects that depend on it. It also includes pyqt-bundle
> which is a command line tool for taking a PyQt wheel and bundling it
> with a locally installed copy of Qt.
>
> The PyQt documentation has been updated to a beta version of the v5.14
> documentation and includes the new build instructions, using
> pyqt-bundle and the PyQt-builder API.
>
> PyQt5-sip has been updated to v12.7.0. This is identical to the
> previous release but adopts a different versioning scheme based on
> semantic versioning of the sip module ABI rather than the version of
> SIP used to create it. SIP v5 itself will also use semantic versioning.
>
> Phil
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Hi,


Is PyQt-builder available for download as a tar archive?


Regards,

Mikhail