Some questions about next versions of SIP

[Phil Thompson]

On 16/09/2020 10:04, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:31:27AM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On 16/09/2020 04:19, Kovid Goyal wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:46:30PM +0530, Kovid Goyal wrote:
>> > > Best I can come up with is to use sip-build and install manually
>> > > myself
>> >
>> > That's what I ended up doing. Another question, how do I get sip-build
>> > to use multiple CPU cores? With configure.py there was -j there doesnt
>> > seem
>> > to be any equivalent in sip-build. Makes building PyQt unnecessarily
>> > slow.
>> 
>> You can run sip-build with --no-make and run make separately. Or I can 
>> add
>> an option. I'm happy to add options, features etc. to fix gaps in the
>> current implementation.
> 
> FWIW I'd also appreciate to have an option to easily parallelize builds
> without having to call make separately.
> 
> We're now at a point where it doesn't seem very exotic to have 12-16
> cores in an affordable, portable 14" laptop[1], so IMHO it should be as
> easy as possible to utilize those, as it does make things a lot faster.
> 
> Maybe it should even default to the number of available cores (i.e.
> "nproc")? Though others might prefer using a single job by default like
> make does as well, not sure.

I've added a --jobs option.

Phil