[Pyqt-mac-list] Re: Pyqt-mac-list digest, Vol 1 #29 - 2 msgs

[Tim L. <tim...@ya...>]

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> Any thoughts as to the cause of the major problems of crashes during
> new file creation etc. ?
> Seems to me that the packaged pyqt-mac is a bit premature to say the
> least.
>
> regards
> borg000
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>

It really seems to be an issue with eric 3.5 and later.  It isn't an  
issue with qt by itself or with pyqt, I don't think-- they are very  
solid on mac in their latest versions.   For someone with a better  
understanding than I of both eric and os-x, the particular crashes we  
are seeing probably would suggest something fairly obvious.  I've  
been hoping someone like that would happen along and take a look, but  
there don't seemed to be very many people interested in eric on mac,  
which is a shame.  Unfortunately, you can't just use an older eric  
(like 3.4) because some minor changes in sip cause an incompatibility  
in in the way  qt/c++ enums are handled in argument lists.  If you  
grab slightly older versions of sip, pyqt and eric, you should be  
able to build the same system that was working from a year or so back  
(although I don't have it working right now on my machine).  Or, I  
think you could get eric 3.4 working with Kevin's latest pyqt-mac if  
you use the current pyuic to rebuild all the gui elements in eric.   
That would be a pain though, and I'm not certain it would work.

I'm hoping, probably irrationally, that when pyqt catches up to qt4  
there will be a new version of eric that is more stable on all  
platforms.

Kevin, your hard work updating pyqt-mac may have been in vain, at  
least wrt eric.  You might actually consider putting the older build  
with eric 3.4 back up, because it was much more stable.  It might  
even be a bit more responsive under tiger, if not exactly zippy.

tim