With SIP v4 getting closer, there are a some major changes in current SIP and PyQt snapshots.
The first thing to say is that if you are using SIP v3.8 to generate your own extension modules then the snapshots should continue to work - it's a bug if they don't. I've stopped introducing incompatibilities to SIP v3 in order to align it to SIP v4. Instead SIP v3 will support the old way of doing things as well as the new (SIP v4) way of doing things. SIP now takes a -w flag which will issue warnings if you are using features that will not appear in SIP v4. It doesn't identify all of them (eg. utility functions called from handwritten code) but it's better than nothing. The biggest changes are that %MemberCode and %VirtualCode are deprecated and replaced with %MethodCode and %VirtualCatcherCode. The result is that the amount of handwritten code needed is greatly reduced and much simpler. The sip.h file has been updated to properly identify which utility functions are part of the SIP v4 API. If, when you have ported your handwritten code to the v4 style, you think that there are v3 specific functions you still need then let me know. The other area of change is build.py for both SIP and PyQt. The SIP build.py now creates and installs a module called sipconfig.py. This contains information about the system configuration and utilities for use by extension modules' own build.py. As a result PyQt's build.py is now 600 lines, rather than 1600 lines, and takes fewer command line arguments. Eventually this mechanism will be extended so that PyQt's build.py will install a pyqtconfig.py module for use by extension modules that are built on top of PyQt. The current PyQt snapshot has been fully migrated to the new scheme. It will work unchanged with both SIP v3 and v4 and contains no "If v3 ... else ..." sort of code. No date yet on when SIP v4 snapshots will be made available, but I hope it will be weeks rather than months. Phil _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
