[Qgis-developer] small note about PyQt

[Martin Dobias]

On Nov 11, 2007 6:17 AM, Aaron Racicot <aaronr at z-pulley.com> wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Just a few notes from personal experience... not sure if they are just
> related to the tests I did or indicative of inherent incompatibilities but:
>
> 1) I have tested QT4.3.2 with PyQt4.3.1 and SIP 4.7 on both Win and Linux,
> all built from source and had issues.  For me I have never been able to get
> a QT4.3.2 build to work with PyQt4.3.1.  Again, maybe that is just me, but I
> have tried and failed.

What were the issues related to? Compilation problems or some strange crashes?


> 2) The Win installer of PyQt from Riverbank (by far the easiest way to
> install for most) is built with the Microsoft compilers and is not
> compatible with the MingW built versions of QT or QGIS in general.  That is
> why Tisham includes the pyqt4 with the win installer now (a MingW version of
> pyqt4).  If you have the Riverbank version already installed it will not
> work without writing over the PyQt4 stuff in site-packages with the MingW
> version.

Ah, I didn't know that - I have always used PyQt built by myself with MinGW.


> I have not tried any of this in about a month because it is quite a time
> sink to try and deal with all of these installs and testing.  Right now the
> only combo that I am happy with and know works on all architectures is
> QT4.3.1, PyQt4.3.1 and SIP4.7.  That is what the release was built with and
> what I am using currently.

I'm wondering what might be reason of Qt4.3.1 not working since it
should be just a bugfix release...

Martin