Some questions about next versions of SIP

[Eli Schwartz]

On 9/15/20 10:43 PM, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 09:28:34PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> Hi Kovid!
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:12:55PM +0530, Kovid Goyal wrote:
>>> So, I looked into moving calibre's build system to use sip5 +
>>> sip-install and am currently stuck with the following:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I cannot answer your question, but I just want to thank you for looking at
>> the SIP v5 port of Calibre. It is currently the largest (and most popular)
>> package in Debian that is still using SIP v4.
> 
> I'm actually a bit surprised you have not run into the same issue
> yourself while packaging. How do you get pyqtwebengine installing into a
> staging area? Thankfully I dont actually need pyqtwebengine's SIP
> files/pyi files/toml files so I will just use sip-build an manually copy
> out the three .so file and leave the junk behind.

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/pyqtwebengine#n20

Currently uses sip-build, make, make INSTALL_ROOT="$pkgdir" install


>> https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/a4df5cc67ba6ee82 makes things
>> a bit better, I have notified our maintainer about that commit. Of course,
>> using the new build system (with pyproject.toml, etc.) would be even better.
>>
> 
> calibre is never going to use pyproject.toml, but I will have its build
> system use sip-build to build its PyQt extensions (it will essentially
> generate a fake project and call sip-build on that) and copy out the
> .so files.

I rather figured pyproject.toml was extremely surplus to requirements
for a project that isn't a PyPI module and builds in the manner of a
complex system program that merely happens to be *mostly* python, so
this does not surprise me at all. :)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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