[QGIS-Developer] SIP is insane

[Stefanos Natsis]

Nice!

With sip code being python, I had just patched my system sip with David's
diff, until 6.15 was included in Debian testing.

Best,
Stefanos

On Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 4:46 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

>
> Le 09/06/2026 à 15:19, Stefanos Natsis a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Am I the only QGIS dev highly frustrated by the bottleneck of sip-build
>> when building QGIS? Can we do something (funding upstream?) to improve
>> that?
>
>
> I used to be quite frustrated when sip4 support was dropped, as sip-build
> times were really terrible with sip 6 at the time.
> After David's fixes in Oct/Nov 2025 though, things are back to normal.
> With sip-tools v6.15+ I don't think sip-build is a bottleneck any more for
> me.
>
> Thanks for the hint. That does improve things (sip-build time) indeed. For
> posterity, I managed to use it without altering too much my build env with:
>
> python3 -m venv sip_venv
> source sip_venv/bin/activate
> pip install sip PyQt-builder
> cmake -USIP_BUILD_EXECUTABLE ..
>
> -- http://www.spatialys.com
> My software is free, but my time generally not.
>
>
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