On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:35:38 +0100, Giovanni Bajo <ra...@develer.com> wrote: > On lun, 2010-11-22 at 16:06 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote: >> I've added a roadmap for SIP v5 at... >> >> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/roadmap >> >> Comments welcome. > > Hi, > > I'm concerned by this: > > ==================================================================== > The code generator will be reimplemented using Python v3. It will be > able to be used as a standalone application or a package. > ==================================================================== > > This means that users of SIP will need to install Python v3 as a > dependency to run sip, even for projects using Python v2. Additional > build dependencies can really really be painful to handle. > > I suggest you revisit this, unless you plan to make it work with Python > v2 through 3to2 or similar. An alternative option would be to write it > in 2to3-friendly dialect of Python v2, so that in the future when you > are ready to drop Python 2 support you can simply drop the original v2 > source code and use the generated version as new basis for development.
I don't see the dependency as a problem. There is no problem installing Python v2 and v3 side by side on Windows. Linux distros have been packaging Python v3 to run alongside v2 for some time. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
