Implement Embedding To Make Signatures Always Available

Situation..

PySide works fine with normal applications. But when installers
are used to pack the application together, then the signature
extension cannot be loaded.

This is a problem that exists since the signature extension was
written. But starting with PySide 5.12.1, the signature extension
is very visible, because it is used to support the __doc__ attribute.

There have beed successful attempts to solve the problem for
PyInstaller and Py2App. But there are more packers available,
and they all need a change both in PySide and in the packer.

Solution..

To solve this problem once and for all, we embed the Python
support files in the binary shiboken package. When the Python
files are not normally accessible, they are unpacked from a ZIP
file.

Details..

- The embedded files shall only be used when the normal files
  are not available,

- The signature extension should no longer be lazily loaded.
  When the application starts, all files should be present.

- We drop support for shiboken2.support.signature and
  use a single, independen folder 'shibokensupport' (proposal).
  This avoids problems with multiple existence of the shiboken2
  folder. PySide2.support.signature remains the official interface,
  but it's only an alias when PySide2 exists.

- The embedding is used when the normal files cannot be
  loaded for some reason. It can be enforced by a sys variable
  "pyside_uses_embedding".

- Testcase is included.

- Tested with PyInstaller on macOS

Fixes: PYSIDE-932
Fixes: PYSIDE-942
Change-Id: Iaa62dc0623503a2e0943eedd10d2b2484c65cc2d
Reviewed-by: Qt CI Bot <qt_ci_bot@qt-project.org>
Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/sources/shiboken2/shibokenmodule/files.dir/shibokensupport/signature/mapping.py b/sources/shiboken2/shibokenmodule/files.dir/shibokensupport/signature/mapping.py
index 470dd676b..9a8ee4c4e 100644
--- a/sources/shiboken2/shibokenmodule/files.dir/shibokensupport/signature/mapping.py
+++ b/sources/shiboken2/shibokenmodule/files.dir/shibokensupport/signature/mapping.py
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ in sys.modules. This minimizes the loading overhead.
 import sys
 import struct
 import os
-import pkgutil
 
 from shibokensupport.signature import typing
 from shibokensupport.signature.typing import TypeVar, Generic
@@ -168,9 +167,7 @@ class _NotCalled(str):
     real object is needed, the wrapper can simply be called.
     """
     def __repr__(self):
-        suppress = "support.signature.typing27."
-        text = self[len(suppress):] if self.startswith(suppress) else self
-        return "{}({})".format(type(self).__name__, text)
+        return "{}({})".format(type(self).__name__, self)
 
     def __call__(self):
         from shibokensupport.signature.mapping import __dict__ as namespace
@@ -346,6 +343,7 @@ def init_other():
 def init_smart():
     type_map.update({
         "smart.SharedPtr": Missing("smart.SharedPtr"),  # bad object "SharedPtr<Obj >"
+        "smart.Smart.Integer2": int,
     })
     return locals()