Great, the SIP's changelog scared me off. On the other hand, there is a changelog for PyQt, but no source code (I know this is supposed to be fixed, but it is broken again).
Gerard On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:19:08 +0100 Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
