Compatibility with sip <= 4.19.8

[otonck]

Hi Gudjon, and thanks again for your work on issue #4

here is another questionning we have with PyQt-Qwt :

since the latest sip version released on PIPY is sip 4.19.8, it would be convenient for us that PyQt-Qwt compiles with this version. The need for sip >= 4.19.11 seems to complexify the deployment of packages using PyQt-Qwt, and I'm not sure about the reason of this requirement.

Moreover, if you plan to publish one day the PyQt-Qwt on PIPY, I think it will be easier with a sip version available on PIPY.

I tried to compile and quickly test PyQt-Qwt with sip 4.19.8, and just had to remove the sip -n (new in sip 4.19.9) argument in the configure.py script to make it work.

In my opinion, a good change in the configure script for PyQt-Qwt would be to replace this line :

argv.append('-n sip')

by this :

    # -n arg new in sip 4.19.9
    if target_config.sip_version >= version_from_string("4.19.9"):
        argv.append('-n sip')

What do you think about this ? I can prepare a pullrequest if you like.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Olivier

[GauiStori]

Hi Oliver

Moreover, if you plan to publish one day the PyQt-Qwt on PIPY, I think it will be easier with a sip version available on PIPY. I am very interested and I have started looking into it but it may take time.

I tried to compile and quickly test PyQt-Qwt with sip 4.19.8, and just had to remove the sip -n (new in sip 4.19.9) argument in the configure.py script to make it work.

In my opinion, a good change in the configure script for PyQt-Qwt would be to replace this line :

argv.append('-n sip')

by this :

    # -n arg new in sip 4.19.9
    if target_config.sip_version >= version_from_string("4.19.9"):
        argv.append('-n sip')

What do you think about this ? I can prepare a pullrequest if you like. Thanks. I was about to fix this for making backporting in Debian easier. Will fix today.

Regards Gudjon