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

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Thu Oct 10 22:23:08 BST 2019


No - DRY

On 10/10/2019 17:48, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> should PyQt-Builder be available via the PyQt web site as well?
> 
> Detlev
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2019, 06:01:21 CEST schrieb 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
>> 
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