UPDATE: py-sip 4.4.2

[aschenke@…]

Here is an updated Portfile for py-sip. Note that the current version (4.3.2) will not install because it can't be found during the fetch phase. Changes:

1. updated homepage
2. updated master_sites
3. updated MD5 checksum
4. removed patch_files (they don't seem to be necessary, it builds OK)

[aschenke@…]

Portfile for py-sip 4.4.1

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Portfile for py-sip-4.4.2

[aschenke@…]

New patch-specs_macx-g++

[mww@…]

commited, thanks - next time, please submit diff's though!

[aschenke@…]

Will do diffs in the future; sorry about that. Seems to work from committed version, closing.

[markd@…]

Py-sip has qt3 and qt3-mac variants commented out. Are they useful anymore (if they worked)? There is this bug made apparently when the variants were not still available. ​http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3160 What should be done with it?

[aschenke@…]

According to the developer website (​http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/sip4/sipref.html):

"1.5 Qt Support

SIP has specific support for the creation of bindings based on Trolltech's Qt toolkit.

The SIP code generator understands the signal/slot type safe callback mechanism that Qt uses to connect objects together. This allows applications to define new Python signals, and allows any Python callable object to be used as a slot.

SIP itself does not require Qt to be installed."

I guess there was some confusion about whether SIP required Qt to be installed or not. There is a message in one of the build scripts (maybe for PyQt) about "SIP not being built with Qt support", so maybe older versions of SIP did require Qt. However, I have installed this current version of SIP without Qt installed, then used it to build PyQt (which does require Qt). It seems to work fine (bug 8480), so I think we can safely get rid of those variants and close bug 3160.

[markd@…]

(In reply to comment #7)

maybe older versions of SIP did require Qt. However, I have installed this current version of SIP without Qt installed, then used it to build PyQt (which does require Qt). It seems to work fine (bug 8480), so I think we can safely get rid of those variants and close bug 3160.

Will do. Thanks!