[PyQt] Missing pyqtconfig

[Phil Thompson]

On 22 Apr 2016, at 9:34 am, Stewart McLay <stewart.mclay at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am using Arch Linux but it does not seem to have pyqtconfig installed for PyQt4 or PyQt5. I read in the documentation (see http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/build_system.html#module-PyQt4.pyqtconfig)...
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> "Deprecated since version 4.10.
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> The old PyQt4 build system is an extension of the SIP v4 build system and is implemented by the pyqtconfig module. It can be used by configuration scripts of other bindings that build on top of PyQt4 and takes care of the details of the Qt installation.
> Note that the pyqtconfig module is only created if you use configure.py and not if you use configure-ng.py."
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> This is confusing. It would appear that pyqtconfig is deprecated but the new build system is not in place yet. Is this correct?

The only information that needs to be extracted from the PyQt configuration are certain flags passed to sip. These can be found as described in the PyQt4 and PyQt5 docs.

The QScintilla configure.py can be used as a basis for any other configure.py - it's internal API is configurable and documented.

Phil