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

[Phil Thompson]

On 30/09/2020 18:07, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> 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?

Nothing. Conceptually I would argue that an extension module can be used 
by many apps and so shouldn't be considered as part of any particular 
app.

Phil