Sip upgrade to 4.16?

Lenard Spencer · 06-02-2015, 11:09 AM

One quick question about upgrading Sip to 4.16.

Other than rebuilding PyQt 4.x, what other packages would need to be rebuilt? I just upgraded Sip on my laptop to 4.16 and installed Qt5 so I could install PyQt5, all to be able to upgrade my Calibre installation to 2.x.

Calibre works like a champ, but I'm a little concerned about breaking any of the packages included in the Slack distro.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: I went back and tried to rebuild PyQt 4.x, but it won't build against the newer sip.

Hmmmm.....

Alien Bob · 06-02-2015, 02:47 PM

I have a calibre.SlackBuild script for Calibre 2.x that only relies on having Qt5 and podofo on your system, the rest (including sip and PyQt5) is compiled into the package so that it does not mess up your Slackware: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/new-...kages-finally/

Lenard Spencer · 06-02-2015, 07:43 PM

Thanks for the pointer. In going through the SB script, I started getting really confused (I'm no master at bash scripting), so I looked at other avenues. And then I had an "ah-ha!" moment. (or is that an "oh sh**" moment?) I happened to go to the Riverbank Computing website (home of PyQt) and found version 4.11.3, so I decided to give that a try, and it built just fine against sip-4.16.7. Now hopefully I haven't broken any other programs that rely on PyQt and/or sip.

Maybe these updates (sip 4.16.7 and PyQt 4.11.3) could be merged into -current?

Also, since Qt4 and PyQt4 are slated for EOL at the end of the year, how much progress has been made on a full-scale migration to Qt5?

Thanks again.

Lenard Spencer · 06-08-2015, 10:00 AM

In looking at my previous post, I realized I wasn't very clear on my PyQt4/PyQt5 installation in my -current partition.

After upgrading sip to 4.16.7 and PyQt to 4.11.3 (and of course installing Qt5 5.4.1), I modified the PyQt SB script to work with PyQt5 and called the package PyQt5, since both 4 and 5 can coexist without overlap.

So far a couple of Python glitches in KDE, but I might try a rebuild of KDE here to see what that does.

dugan · 06-08-2015, 12:02 PM

I have a Calibre SlackBuild here that downloads and builds the official binary package. It includes Qt 5 in the download.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/du...bre.SlackBuild

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Also, since Qt4 and PyQt4 are slated for EOL at the end of the year, how much progress has been made on a full-scale migration to Qt5?

KDE's own migration is still in progress, isn't it?

Thanks for looking into PyQt5, btw. I was just about to install it to try to get m64py working.

Alien Bob · 06-08-2015, 12:35 PM

Newer sip, PyQt4 and also PyQt5 packages are here for testing:
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/al...g/x86_64/deps/
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/al...ting/x86/deps/