Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/38911
On 9/21/20 1:19 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi again Sebastiaan! > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:08:39PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> I'm planning to cherry-pick your changes to the experimental branch for >> testing with QGIS 3.10.x LTR, if that also builds fine I'll upload it to >> experimental as well. Assuming there are not major complication I can >> keep that branch updated with the monthly LTR releases until pyqt5 moves >> to unstable. > > I have an update on PyQt5 vs. SIP 5 status. > > Unfortunately, things got a bit more complicated recently. Upstream is > going to release SIP 6 in the beginning of next year, which will be not > co-installable together with SIP 5, and which will not have /usr/bin/sip5 > “legacy” script: > > https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2020-September/043201.html > https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2020-September/043162.html > > sip5 was a script to ease upgrades from SIP 4, and it has a set of options > similar to SIP 4's /usr/bin/sip. Upstream now recommends using their new > tools, sip-build and similar ones. See the documentation: > > https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/sip/ > > This means that next year we will have SIP 4 and SIP 6 in Debian, but not > SIP 5. My upstream work on QGIS made use of /usr/bin/sip5, so it will need to > be ported to the new tools in order to support SIP 6 (and PyQt6). > > At the same time, upstream says that it will remain possible to compile > applications with SIP 4 even when PyQt5 uses newer SIP. So now I think the > best plan is: > > - Please keep using SIP 4 for QGIS for now. > - Please test that it still works fine with PyQt5 in experimental. > - Ask upstream to migrate to the new tools to be prepared for SIP 6 / PyQt6. Thanks for the updated, forwarded upstream in: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/38911 The experimental branch on salsa still has the sip5 changes, perhaps it's best to merge those and use that until support for SIP 6 arrives. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
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