On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:31:26 -0600, Rex Dieter <rdie...@math.unl.edu> wrote: > Phil Thompson wrote: > >> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:04:05 +0000, Jeremy Sanders >> <jer...@jeremysanders.net> wrote: >>> Hi - I've been seeing some ABI breakages in PyQt applications (which >>> compile >>> against PyQt and SIP) in some Linux packages recently: >>> >>> e.g., https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755355 >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pykde4/+bug/826321 >>> >> > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/e44754a502fd95c0/8c71c436a17dac1f?show_docid=8c71c436a17dac1f >>> >>> This seemed to happen somewhere between sip 4.12.1 and 4.12.3 or >>> PyQt4-4.8.3 >>> and PyQt4-4.8.4 (at least for Veusz in Fedora 15). >>> >>> Was there an explict change where the PyQt4.QtCore module version >> changed? >>> I >>> can't see it in the changelogs. It's unclear to me whether it was a >> change >>> in sip or PyQt that caused the problem. >>> >>> Is there a better way to deal with breakage when SIP or PyQt4 is >> updated? >> >> That's the right way to deal with it - raise an exception when it detects >> that incompatible versions are being used. The bugs are in the binary >> packages that are dependent on SIP and PyQt - they need to be rebuilt >> when >> the internal ABI changes. Obviously I need to do a better job in >> documenting when those changes happen - but I would expect packagers to >> be >> slightly more on the ball than they seem to be. > > In this case, the abi as reported by sip, SIP_API_MAJOR_NR > SIP_API_MINOR_NR > went from 8.0 to 8.1, so I'd expect items built against sip-4.12 with > MAJOR.MINOR 8.0 to be compatible with a 8.1 runtime. Seems not to be the > case here. > > Unless there's some other way to track ABI (in PyQt or elsewhere)?
No, the bug reports mentioned related to the PyQt internal version which is a different thing. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
