On Thursday 06 of February 2014 16:46:25 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/05/2014 07:42 PM, Slávek Banko wrote:
> > Have you tried to sip4-tqt add patch 1912 (sip4-tqt : install as module
> > by default) from bug 1790? If patch 1912 is correct, the files should be
> > installed in a subfolder sip4_tqt. As follows:
> >
> > tde-sip-R14preRC1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> >   usr/include/python3.3m/sip.h
> >   usr/share/licenses/tde-sip/LICENSE
> >   usr/bin/sip
> >   usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/sip4_tqt/__init__.py
> >   usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/sip4_tqt/sip.so
> >   usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/sip4_tqt/sipconfig.py
> >   usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/sip4_tqt/sipdistutils.py
> >
> > tde-sip4-tqt-R14preRC1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> >   usr/include/python2.7/sip.h
> >   usr/share/licenses/tde-sip4-tqt/LICENSE
> >   usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip4_tqt/__init__.py
> >   usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip4_tqt/sip.so
> >   usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip4_tqt/sipconfig.py
> >   usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sip4_tqt/sipdistutils.py
> >
> > Slavek
>
> Thank you Slavek,
>
>   I have it sorted. I see the subfolder move, but do not understand why
> using sip as a module instead of an executable is preferred. However, I see
> the benefit in resolving the conflict with upstream sip. I've simply been
> replacing the upstream 'sip' provided file with 'tde-sip' since I was
> building with upstream anyway. It was just frustrating to be cramped on
> time and then to run into dependency packages changing locations in the
> filesystem.

The decisive reason for the move to the modules have been just avoid conflict 
with the standard 'sip' and 'python-qt'. 

I assume that both patches (1912, 1913) from bug 1790 can be considered as 
tested => suitable for pushing to Git.

Slavek
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