Log Message:
Update to 3.17.4:

2007/12/06 14:27:50  phil
Operator related changes needed for SIP v4.7.2 and later.
Released as v3.17.4.

2007/07/30 16:51:02  phil
Released as v3.17.3.

2007/07/01 16:08:55  phil
Acquire the GIL before freeing a signal/slot connection.

2007/06/13 17:33:55  phil
Removed #includes of SIP generated files that, strictly speaking, were internal
and no longer generated.

2007/06/05  9:37:59  phil
Fix for an overflow bug in QImage from Ulli.

2007/05/14 15:00:02  phil
Updated progress.py example from Pete Jansen.

2007/04/25 12:28:47  phil
Updated the NEWS file.

2007/04/25 12:25:19  phil
Released as v3.17.2.

2007/04/21 14:13:36  phil
Backed out the recent change to remove the /ReleaseGIL/ from
QApplication.postEvent() as it turns out it avoids a potential deadlock.

2007/04/10 16:13:51  phil
Released as v3.17.1.

2007/04/02 15:27:03  phil
Updated the NEWS file.
SIP v4.6 is now required.
The QLayoutItem sub-class code no longer handles QLayout and leaves it to the
QObject sub-class code to deal with.

2007/02/20 10:58:40  phil
Removed the unneeded /ReleaseGIL/ from QApplication::postEvent().
Removed the GIL manipulation in QCustomEvent (in particular in the traverse
code).

2007/01/27 16:02:18  phil
Removed knowledge of the optional parts of the Qt support API so that it is no
longer necessary to update PyQt when new optional parts are added.

2007/01/27 15:37:47  phil
Updated the Qt support API for the latest SIP.

2007/01/21 16:29:15  phil
Implemented sipQtFindConnection() so that lambda slots can be handled by the
cyclic garbage collector.

2007/01/17 16:58:32  phil
Updated the copyright notices.

2006/11/30 20:58:48  phil
Fixed bug in QApplication ctor handwritten code that caused a crash if a
QApplication was created a second time with no arguments.

2006/11/04 22:08:33  phil
Released as v3.17.

2006/10/27 17:13:44  phil
Updated the news file.

2006/10/21 14:10:23  phil
Switched the internal build system to Qt v3.3.7.

2006/10/06 17:44:27  phil
Synched with the latest QScintilla1 API.

2006/09/09 17:59:52  phil
Added QextScintilla.setFont().
The internal build system now uses -j2.

2006/09/02 13:35:03  phil
Removed the use of -c in the internal build systems invocation of configure.py
as it causes problems for GCC v4.

2006/08/17  9:36:39  phil
Added the missing QListView.setSelectionAnchor().

2006/07/30 17:16:35  phil
Updated for the latest QScintilla v1 snapshot.

2006/07/19 23:30:28  phil
Some tweaks for Windows64 support based on patches from Gerard.

2006/07/16 12:38:36  phil
Adapted the handwritten code for Python v2.5.

2006/07/08 19:25:44  phil
Added QextScintilla.isCallTipActive().

2006/07/03 19:40:22  phil
Added pyqt_config_args to pyqtconfig.py.
Fixed QTextEdit.setAutoFormatting().

2006/07/02 14:28:05  phil
Added setWrapVisualFlags(), WrapMode::WrapCharacter, WrapVisualFlag to
QextScintilla.

2006/07/01 18:57:30  phil
Added cancelList(), firstVisibleLine(), isListActive(), showUserList(),
textHeight() and userListActivated() to QextScintilla.

2006/06/28 22:12:57  phil
QextScintilla.foldAll() can now optionally fold all child fold points.
Added autoCompleteFromAll() and setAutoCompletionStartCharacters() to
QextScintilla.
Added AcsAll as an auto-completion source.

2006/06/25 21:52:03  phil
Added defaultColor() and setDefaultColor() to QextScintillaLexer.
Added color() and setColor() to QextScintilla.
Renamed eraseColor() and setEraseColor() to paper() and setPaper() in
QextScintilla.

2006/06/25 16:21:32  phil
Added defaultPaper() and setDefaultPaper() to QextScintillaLexer.
Added eraseColor() and setEraseColor() to QextScintilla.

2006/06/22 19:29:38  phil
The mkfeatures helper is now always built without debugging.
configure.py now states that the -u flag on Windows needs a debug version of
Python.

2006/06/20 15:57:55  phil
Latest QScintilla updates.

2006/06/19 21:00:47  phil
Synced with the latest QScintilla snapshot - including the significantly
changed Ruby lexer.

2006/06/19 15:55:42  phil
Solaris warnings fixes from Ulli.

2006/06/18 23:51:34  phil
Sync with the latest QScintilla changes: highlighted identifiers and decorators
in the Python lexer.

2006/06/18 16:40:31  phil
Updated for the latest QScintilla snapshot.

2006/05/17  8:39:39  phil
Removed some inaccessable methods from QCString.

2006/05/11 19:04:27  phil
Another fix for Qt v3.1 in qnamespace.sip.

2006/04/28 20:47:46  phil
Replaced long long with PY_LONG_LONG for MSVC 6.

2006/04/07 23:29:54  phil
Tidy ups to the internal build system.

2006/04/06 12:26:09  phil
Fixed Qt::MacintoshVersion for Qt v3.0.x and v3.1.x.

2006/04/05 12:11:43  phil
Removed all functions that were hidden by overloads with the same Python
signature (ie. both of them).

2006/03/30  8:09:58  phil
Added QStringList::operator+=(const QString &).

2006/03/29 11:38:21  phil
Added the missing QImage.bitBlt() function.

2006/03/24 23:54:13  phil
Released as v3.16.

2006/03/23 21:34:09  phil
Added a missing /Transfer/ from QGLWidget().

2006/03/20 21:00:58  phil
Removed the "Filter" functions from the documentation.

2006/03/20 20:59:23  phil
Removed the "Filter" versions of the QFileDialog static methods as \ 
they aren't
necessary after all (just not obvious how to use them properly).

2006/03/14 22:45:09  phil
pyuic now specifies the Latin1 encoding when the -embed flag is used.

2006/03/13 11:55:09  phil
Build system changes so that PyQt builds on MacOS properly.

2006/03/11 19:16:56  phil
Removed some leftovers from when PyQt3 and 4 shared a single config.py.  PyQt3
no longer searches PATH for the Qt bin directory.

2006/03/11 15:15:15  phil
Fixed build problem with Qt v1.x.

2006/03/10 22:37:30  phil
Updates for Qt v3.3.6.

2006/03/04 16:06:40  phil
Documentation updates.
Applied the same transfer rule to QPopupMenu.exec() as is applied to
QDialog.exec().
Added getOpenFileNameFilter(), getSaveFileNameFilter() and
getOpenFileNamesFilter() to QFileDialog that return a tuple of the selected
files and the current filter.

2006/02/26 13:56:28  phil
Added support for signed char to the Qt API.

2006/02/21 15:22:08  phil
Changed the signal/slot handling so that unsigned int and unsigned short are
implemented as long objects rather than integer objects.

2006/02/19 16:43:48  phil
Updates to the internal Qt API.

2006/02/18 21:05:56  phil
Added new stubs in the Qt support API (not used by PyQt3).

2006/02/14 19:16:05  phil
The destroyed() signal can now be received by a Python slot.

2006/02/13 20:02:22  phil
Fixed a typo in configure.py.

2006/02/13  0:24:55  phil
Updated the handwritten code to use the current SIP API.

2006/02/12  1:14:11  phil
Removed all calls sipForceConvertTo*().
Removed all uses of newly deprecated calls.

2006/01/26 16:40:38  phil
Changed the signal/slot support required by the latest SIP changes.

2006/01/16 18:58:26  phil
Removed PYQT_BUILD.

2006/01/10 19:13:07  phil
Fixed a typo in the last change.

2006/01/10 18:20:02  phil
Fixed the sipForceConvertToTransfer_*() calls.

2005/12/30 14:30:08  phil
More changes to handwritten code that should be handling sipSelfWasArg.

2005/12/28 19:35:10  phil
Updated all handwritten convertor code for the latest SIP changes.

2005/12/24 17:02:31  phil
Changes required by the introduction of sipSelfWasArg in the SIP snapshot.

2005/12/22 16:22:48  phil
Really fixed the QApplication argc bug this time.

2005/12/19 17:43:42  phil
Changes to the build system for the latest SIP snapshot.

2005/12/18 11:00:06  phil
Stripped the Qt4 specific stuff from configure.py.

2005/12/18 10:06:25  phil
Updated the internal build system not to include the .svn directory in
packages.

2005/12/17 19:43:36  phil
Changes to the internal build system for the CVS to SVN transfer.

2005/12/07 00:54:04  phil
Added a missing #include from qstring.sip in PyQt3.

2005/12/04 18:41:31  phil
Fixed the handling of horizontal and vertical stretch in QSizePolicy.

2005/11/29 13:06:37  phil
Fixed a long standing bug with QApplication ctors that only showed itself with
Qt4.

2005/11/24 17:45:09  phil
Added the missing /ReleaseGIL/ to QThread.exit().

2005/11/24 17:22:31  phil
Changes required for the modified mapped type template syntax.

2005/11/20 18:41:02  phil
The HTML documentation is now maintained manually rather than being
auto-generated.

2005/11/17 18:24:48  phil
Fixed bug in pyuic related to QKeySequence.

2005/11/12 10:29:13  phil
Added the missing ctor to QApplication.

2005/11/10 21:10:46  phil
Removed the /TransferThis/ annotations from the QTableItem (and sub-classes)
ctors. The Qt documentation is wrong.

2005/11/09 18:00:47  phil
Fixed the GIL bug in qInstallMsgHandler().

2005/11/01 22:08:32  phil
Implemented the PyQt3 changes for the new Qt support API.

2005/10/26 14:34:57  phil
Modified the QString buffer interface to be reentrant and to try and use the
default Python codec.

2005/10/23 16:02:47  phil
QObject.sender() now supports Python signals.

2005/10/22 22:38:54  phil
Implemented the buffer interface for QString.

2005/10/19 13:38:24  phil
Improved the fix to QClipboard.setData().

2005/10/16 16:09:29  phil
Used mapped type templates in PyQt3 where possible.

2005/10/13 18:52:02  phil
Fixed the handling of QClipboard.setMimeType() and a related memory leak.

2005/10/12 21:11:15  phil
Fixed bug in configure.py when the Qt bin directory isn't on the path.
Fixed compilation problem with QAxBase handwritten code and MinGW.
Added the * and *= operators to QString.
Removed some QString methods that were passing or returning arrays.

2005/10/11 21:13:48  phil
Added /Numeric/ to the QString + operator. The improved behaviour (being able
to write s = "foo" + QString("bar")) should now work in both \ 
PyQt3 and 4.

2005/10/07 18:15:37  phil
Changed the PyQt3 QString behaviour with long and ulong to match PyQt4.

2005/09/22 20:18:39  phil
Updated the build system now that all Qt specific configuration data has been
removed from sipconfig.

2005/09/10 21:33:59  phil
Fixed bug in configure.py when reporting an incorrect SIP version.

2005/09/08 20:16:33  phil
Updated the universal slot support to fit with the latest SIP snapshot.
Changed the way universal slots are implemented so they get destroyed when the
corresponding transmitter gets destroyed.

2005/09/07 20:53:52  phil
Removed support for SIP v3 in configure.py.
Minor pyuic fix taken from uic v3.3.5.
Added the missing MacintoshVersion enum.
Added the -f flag to configure to use any existing features file (by default it
is recreated).

2005/09/06 20:33:43  phil
Removed support for SIP v3 from configure.py.
Added the new Qt support code taken out of SIP.