[Pythonmac-SIG] Jack Jansen MIA? and "official unofficial" 2.4.2 question

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 4, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Christopher K. Davis wrote:

> I sent in a patch on SourceForge to fix some type problems in
> Mac/Modules/qt/qtsupport.py about two months ago, hoping to see it  
> get into
> Python 2.4.2, but haven't heard anything or seen any updates.  His
> MacPython web site seems not to have been updated lately, either.
>
> Barring hearing from Jack, can anyone (Bob, perhaps?) offer me  
> hints on how
> to compile a new copy of the _Qt.so that can be dropped in to  
> either the
> Tiger stock 2.3.5 or Bob's official unofficial 2.4.1?  (And, if Bob's
> listening, can this patch [1254695] make it into any 2.4.2 build  
> you do?)
> The patch doesn't change _Qtmodule.c directly, so bgen still has to  
> be run
> to get a working copy of that, but I figured out how to make that work
> already.

I don't have time to look at or apply this patch, I suggest bringing  
up the issue on python-dev.  They're probably going to ask you to  
review 5 patches in order to get a review of yours.

To build _Qt.so externally, take a look at what I did with http:// 
svn.red-bean.com/bob/Python23Compat/trunk/

-bob