[Kde-bindings] Review Request 119302: Make FindPyQt4 work with PyQt's new build system.

[Scott Kitterman]

> On July 16, 2014, 1:42 a.m., Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > This is the method used in qscintilla2's configure.py (which upstream has generally endorsed):
> > 
> > #! /usr/bin/python
> > 
> > import sys
> > import os
> > 
> > if sys.platform == 'win32':
> >     data_dir = sys.prefix
> > else:
> >     data_dir = sys.prefix + '/share'
> > 
> > py_sip_dir = os.path.join(data_dir, 'sip')
> > 
> > # Note: Set this by hand since the logic to figure out if we're using PyQt4 or
> > # PyQt5 isn't relevant to the question (QScintilla does do this, but it's not
> > # germane).
> > pyqt = 'PyQt4'
> > 
> > if pyqt is not None:
> >     pyqt_sip_dir = os.path.join(py_sip_dir, pyqt)
> > else:
> >     pyqt_sip_dir = None
> > 
> > print(pyqt_sip_dir)
> > # prints /usr/share/sip/PyQt4
> > 
> > We should use something similar.

So markdown and python code comments don't mix.  The bolded things all have a leading '#'.


- Scott


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On July 15, 2014, 9:19 p.m., Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
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> (Updated July 15, 2014, 9:19 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Build System, KDE Bindings, kdelibs, Alex Merry, Luca Beltrame, and Simon Edwards.
> 
> 
> Bugs: 337462
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337462
> 
> 
> Repository: kdelibs
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> Since PyQt 4.10, PyQt.pyqtconfig is deprecated and not available unless
> PyQt is built using the old configure script.
> 
> There is no direct replacement for it, as PyQt's new build system does
> not provide as much information as before by design. Luckily, most of
> the variables we are interested in can be obtained from PyQt's QtCore
> module itself even if its old build system is used.
> 
> The only exception is `pyqt_sip_dir`, which cannot be determined at all
> if pyqtconfig is not available. In this case, there is nothing we can do
> but ask the user to specify it manually via CMake with something like
> `-DPYQT4_SIP_DIR=/usr/share/sip`. To this effect, all variables set by
> FindPyQt4.cmake have been made cache variables, which means their values
> can be overriden by the user, thus ignoring the contents read via
> FindPyQt.py.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   cmake/modules/FindPyQt.py 5d2f9514d87553d5a16a95943618572316c92861 
>   cmake/modules/FindPyQt4.cmake b176b4f8cfee471a1b7aecdd2723d165b0496a85 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119302/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> I was able to make Kate find PyQt by passing `-DPYQT4_SIP_DIR=<...>` with my PyQt installation without `pyqtconfig.py`, and calling `FindPyQt.py` by hand on a Debian system with `pyqtconfig.py` worked as before.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Raphael Kubo da Costa
> 
>

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