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

[Patrick Stinson]

Noted. Though the use case I am putting forward is app-specific C++ code.

> On Sep 30, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> 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