In-app extensions with pyqtdeploy-3/sip-5

[Patrick Stinson]

Phil,

I am moving this question form the thread about pyqt6/sip6 snapshots being released.

I think pyqtdeploy currently has a conceptual conflict that does not allow for including sip extensions that are part of the app itself - when a PyQt5 application C++ code that extends Qt classes that are used and extended in python app code.

Currently, pyqtdeploy component plugins are meant to be part of the sysroot and not part of the app. For example, pyqtdeploy-build has no build phase that merely generates the source code for an extension. The closest thing is AbstractComponent.install(), which is only called from pyqtdeploy-sysroot which is awkward for code developed in tandem with the app itself.

What am I missing here?

-Patrick