update master to vendor version 4.19.25

Author: SilvanScherrer

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,156 @@
+v4.19.25 26th February 2021
+  - Added support for Py_ssize_t.
+
+v4.19.24 13th August 2020
+  - Added support for Python v3.9.
+  - %InstanceCode is now used to provide the default result of virtual handlers
+    that return a class or mapped type by value.
+  - 'android_abi' can now be used in a configuration file when building the sip
+    module using qmake.  This is required when using Qt v5.14 or later on
+    Android.
+
+v4.19.23 8th June 2020
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.22 3rd April 2020
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.21 31st January 2020
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.20 19th December 2019
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.19 14th September 2019
+  - Added sipIsOwnedByPython(), sipRegisterExitNotifier() and
+    sipVisitWrappers() to the C API.
+  - Deprecated the -B option to sip.
+
+v4.19.18 5th July 2019
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.17 6th May 2019
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.16 11th April 2019
+  - Added support for the Haiku platform.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.15 19th March 2019
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.14 10th February 2019
+  - The reference count displayed by sip.dump() now has the same caveat as
+    sys.getrefcount().
+  - Added SIP_NULLPTR to the C API.
+  - Added support for size_t.
+  - Added sipLong_AsSizeT() to the C API.
+  - Added the '=' format characters to sipBuildResult() and sipParseResult().
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.13 1st October 2018
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.12 8th July 2018
+  - Added the --no-module option to configure.py.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.11 2nd July 2018
+  - Added the /ScopesStripped/ argument annotation.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.10 24th June 2018
+  - A bug fix release fixing a serious regression in the code generator.
+
+v4.19.9 23rd June 2018
+  - The members of traditional C/C++ enums are now also visible within the
+    scope of the enum itself.  This means that members of scoped and unscoped
+    enums can be accessed in the same way from Python.
+  - A PEP 376 .dist-info directory is created on installation that provides
+    version information for dependent packages and allows pip to uninstall.
+  - Added the --no-dist-info option to configure.py.
+  - Private copies of the sip module are now easier to configure and use.  SIP
+    v5 will only support private copies.
+  - Added the -n option to the sip code generator to support private copies of
+    the sip module.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.8 26th February 2018
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.7 23rd January 2018
+  - The %Docstring directive can now include automatically generated signature
+    descriptions using the "signature" option.
+  - typedefs can now have %Docstring directives.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.6 23rd November 2017
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.5 6th November 2017
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.4 1st November 2017
+  - Added support for C++11 scoped enums implemented as Python enums.
+  - Added enableoverflowchecking() to the sip module.
+  - Added sipEnableOverflowChecking() to the C API.
+  - Added sipTypeIsScopedEnum() to the C API.
+  - Added sipConvertToBool() to the C API.
+  - Added sipConvertToEnum() to the C API.
+  - Deprecated sipCanConvertToEnum() in the C API.
+  - Added sipLong_AsChar(), sipLong_AsSignedChar() and sipLong_AsUnsignedChar()
+    to the C API.
+  - Added sipLong_AsShort() and sipLong_AsUnsignedShort() to the C API.
+  - Added sipLong_AsInt() and sipLong_AsUnsignedInt() to the C API.
+  - Added sipLong_AsLong() and sipLong_AsUnsignedLong() to the C API.
+  - Added sipLong_AsLongLong() and sipLong_AsUnsignedLongLong() to the C API.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.3 3rd July 2017
+  - Added support for type hints for properties.
+  - Added sipEventType and sipRegisterEventHandler() to the C API.
+  - Added sipInstanceDestroyed() to the C API.
+  - Added sipPrintObject() to the C API.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.2 30th March 2017
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19.1 15th February 2017
+  - Added the %PreMethodCode directive.
+  - Added sipEnableGC() to the C API.
+  - Added the -D command line option so that the generated code is aware of
+    Python debug builds.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.19 25th December 2016
+  - Added support for the 'final' keyword.
+  - Added the 'use_limited_api' argument to the %Module directive.
+  - Added the %HideNamespace directive.
+  - Added the assign() function to the sip module.
+  - Added sipCallProcedureMethod() to the C API.
+  - Added sipCheckPluginForType() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetBufferInfo() and sipReleaseBufferInfo() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetCFunction() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetDate() and sipFromDate() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetDatetime() and sipFromDatetime() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetFrame() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetMethod() and sipFromMethod() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetTime() and sipFromTime() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetTypeUserData() and sipSetTypeUserData() to the C API.
+  - Added sipGetUserObject() and sipSetUserObject() to the C API.
+  - Added sipIsUserType() to the C API.
+  - Added sipPyTypeDict() and sipPyTypeName() to the C API.
+  - Added sipSetNewUserTypeHandler() to the C API.
+  - Added sipUnicodeData(), sipUnicodeNew()  and sipUnicodeWrite() to the C
+    API.
+  - Removed the support for module version numbers.
+  - Removed all code generator support for PyQt3.
+  - Bug fixes.
+
+v4.18.1 25th July 2016
+  - Bug fixes.
+
 v4.18 13th April 2016
   - Added the /TypeHint/ argument, class, mapped type, function, typedef and
     variable annotations.

NEWS

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SIP - C/C++ Bindings Generator for Python v2 and v3
 ===================================================
 
 The SIP documentation (including installation instructions) can be found in the
-``doc`` directory.
+``sphinx`` directory.
 
 
 Building from the Mercurial Repository
@@ -17,17 +17,10 @@ same directory as this ``README`` file.  If it isn't there then you probably
 have a packaged release and should just follow the normal installation
 instructions.
 
-The ``build.py`` script requires that ``flex`` and ``bison``, and the Mercurial
-Python bindings are installed.  If you want to create the HTML documentation
-then Sphinx must also be installed.
+The ``build.py`` script requires that ``flex`` and ``bison`` are installed.
 
 To prepare run the following::
 
     python build.py prepare
 
-Note that ``build.py`` is a Python v2 script.
-
 Now you can follow the normal installation instructions.
-
-The ``build.py`` script has other useful commands, use the ``--help`` option to
-see the details.