Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

[Orion P. <or...@nw...>]

On 10/30/21 15:38, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2021-10-30 20:33+0100 António Rodrigues Tomé wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alan
>> I do not know if I will be able to solve in short/medium time whatever 
>> the
>> problem is as I usually do not use python or  pyqt. So I will try to 
>> learn
>> what this is all about.
> 
> Thanks for being willing to take this on.  Sip (which is how we
> generate our pyqt bindings) advertises itself as a really easy-to-use
> method of generating such bindings.  So by consulting that sip
> documentation page (referenced in my recent email), you might be able
> to very quickly figure out what to do for the latest sip version.
> 
> If/when you get modern sip to generate our pyqt5 binding by hand, I
> would be happy to help with any CMake-related adjustments that need to
> be made.  For example, I have just discovered that "sip -V" generates
> the sip version string which would allow me to create a simple CMake
> test for the sip version.  That test would allow us to use the present
> method for old sip versions and any new method you figure out for
> later sip versions.

So, it appears that the Fedora plplot package is building fine with sip 
6.3.1.  Perhaps you may find some clues there, though I'm not sure we 
re-generate the bindings in our builds.

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