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

[Phil Thompson]

On 10/10/2019 05:01, Mikhail Terekhov wrote:
> 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?

Sorry I forgot to upload the sdist. I will do it by the weekend.

Phil