On Friday 03 January 2003 11:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For those interested I've added a SIP Roadmap to the website at > > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/roadmap.php which describes the > > main objectives and features for SIP v4. > > > > Comments welcome. > > As author of PyQwt, an extension package that I support also on Qt-230-NC, > I have the following comments: > > (1) wrt the obeying to the Python API export rules. This also facilitates > the link step on other platforms than MacOS/X: under current scheme this is > a minor problem on Posix systems, but on Windows, it means rebuilding > PyQt-NC and sip-NC to rebuild the necessary *.exp and *.lib. Great!
I hadn't appreciated that. I'll try and remember to include a sub-package, excluded from the "Typical" installation, that includes the .exp and .lib files. Remind me when I forget. > (2) wrt to the limitation to Qt >= 3.0.0. This will make it more difficult > for me to keep PyQwt compatible with Windows (I have no commercial version > for Qt, neither for PyQt). Let me point out that I know of at least 2 > companies with a commercial license for PyQt that are also using PyQwt. Actually the real problem is that (1) requires qmake rather than tmake. I don't think there will be an issue with Qt itself. > From a more general point of view: > > (3) Using the new-style Python-2.2 classes allows to map a C++ inheritance > tree to Python (I have played with this, writing a wrapper for Fltk by > hand). > This is a great step forward for sip, also as a wrapper tool for other > libraries than Qt. In this respect, it would be nice if there is > support for two Python sip extensions modules, "sipQt" and "sip", with > and without Qt support. How would that help? If you use a non-Qt wrapper with a Qt-sip module, it will work fine. If you try a Qt wrapper with a non-Qt-sip module you will get an exception. > In summary, sounds great, but I'd like to keep support for Qt >= 2.3.0. As I said, it comes down to tmake/qmake. tmake doesn't support plugins which is what a pure Python module is - but maybe that won't be an issue for Windows and UNIX. It will be worth playing with once snapshots of SIP v4 appear. Phil _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
