On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:23 PM Felix Schwarz <fschw...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> Am 05.09.19 um 14:57 schrieb Richard Shaw:
> > [python-pyside/shiboken]
> > - AFAICT these were only designed to work with Python 2, Pyside2 brought
> > compatibility with Python 3.
> > - My opinion: All consumers of Pyside need to attempt to move over to
> Pyside2
> > then Pyside/Shiboken can be retired.
>
> +1
>
> Even though pyside 1 works with some versions of Python 3 it is quite
> buggy.
> As far as I know the pyside(2) developers considered even beta versions of
> pyside2 to be much more stable than pyside1.
>
> Once pyside1 is retired we should also retire shiboken and the other build
> tools.
>
> From a quick look (F30) there are not many dependent packages in F30:
> - yubikey-piv-manage
>   dead upstream, no longer being maintained
>   maintainer: orion
>

I can take a stab at it but if it needs significant porting it may be best
to retire it.



> - ubertooth-specan-ui
>   latest upstream release "2018-12-R1" supports (only) pyside2
>   - actually Fedora is carrying an extra patch which reverts back to
> pyside1
>

Hah, I'll take a look!


- freecad
>

On that front, I've got Coin4 packaged; SoQt and SIMVoleon updating a
linking properly with Coin4 but I ran into an issue with python-pivy. I
already have the latest checkout packaged (same upstream at the others) but
running into a swig related error during building.

I'll start another thread seeking some help for it.


Richard: IIRC you also maintain freecad in Fedora, right? In that case I
> think
> you would be the best person to drive the change forward and retire
> pyside1/shiboken/apiextractor afterwards.


I figured there would have been more consumers but since the list is pretty
short I'll see what I can do. I'm not the main contact for the pyside1
group but I'll try to work with whoever is to work on retirement.

Thanks,
Richard
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