[PyQt] Incompatibility between PyQt compiled with Qt 4.7 and 4.8

[Scott Kitterman]

Luca Beltrame <einar at heavensinferno.net> wrote:

>In data sabato 28 gennaio 2012 12:13:41, Scott Kitterman ha scritto:
>
>> but leaves open the question of what caused the incompatiblity and
>what
>> other packages might be affected.
>
>As far as I can see, SIP makes no ABI guarantees between versions, so
>that's 
>the (unfortunate) side effect. What used to happen in KDE was to
>require the 
>highest available SIP and PyQt at the time of release.
> 
>I've upped the requirements for PyKDE4 to the latest SIP and PyQt in
>KDE's git 
>master a while ago, but I didn't do so in the 4.8 branch because I
>thought I 
>would need a "go" from the maintainer first: I've emailed Simon, yes,
>but I 
>didn't get a response.

I'm not sure how that helps in this case because what changed was the Qt version used at compile time. The Sip4 PyQt versions were unchanged.

Scott K