How to keep the way of using enum as sip 5 for sip 6?

[Phil Thompson]

On 12/01/2021 05:19, Weitian Leung wrote:
>> 
>> - All enums are now implemented as enum.Enum (PyQt5 used enum.IntEnum 
>> for
>> scoped enums and a custom type for traditional named enums). PyQt5 
>> allowed
>> an int whenever an enum was expected but PyQt6 requires the correct 
>> type.
>> - QFlags are implemented as enum.Flag.
> 
> 
> As mentioned in PyQt6 released news, I found this also affected 
> non-PyQt
> project with sip 6, such as:
> 
>> namespace demo {
>>     enum Hello {
>>         World = 0
>>     }
>> }
>> 
> 
> Will not possibly be used as *demo.World* with python. Searching the
> document found the /NoScope/ but didn't help, it just failed to 
> compile.
> The only way for now I can see is removing the enum name (Hello for
> example), but it's just too weird.
> 
> Is there another way to make enum compatible with sip 5?

SIP implements a number of ABI versions. The new enum behaviour is 
implemented in v13, which is the latest version and therefore the 
default version.

If you want the old behaviour then specify ABI v12 (as PyQt5 does).

Phil