On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:02:42 -0600, "Jonathan Harper" <j...@white-walls.net> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > reading the backlogs and all I was able to find related to support for >> > PyQt@Qt5 its great to see that PyQt4 does support Qt5 already. >> > Fantastic >> >> > work as usual Phil! >> > >> > My question is direct related to PyQt5, so not PyQt4. I read that the >> > plan is to replace QString/QVariant with Python objects but beside that >> > there are not much informations around related to PyQt5. >> > >> > So, is there any guesstimate or maybe even a roadmap when we can >> expect >> > to see PyQt5? Also I wonder if now that PyQt4 does proper support Qt4 >> > and Qt5 has PyQt5 any priority? Is it supposed to replace PyQt4 let's >> > say next n years or will PyQt4 live on during Qt5 lifetime (I think >> > yes, >> >> > but cannot harm to ask I think :) ). >> > >> > Thanks in advance and keep up the great work! >> >> The priority for PyQt5 is certainly lower than it was originally because >> of the amount of stuff that was removed from Qt5. In other words, Qt v5.0 >> doesn't offer much over Qt4. That will change once Digia sort out their >> resourcing of what was originally planned for Qt5, presumably starting > with >> Qt v5.1. >> >> Adding Qt5 support to PyQt4 was a lot of work, but it will all be re-used >> in PyQt5. The main remaining work to do for PyQt5 is to change the build >> system. There are two drivers for this... >> >> - SIP5 will not include a build system so PyQt will need a self-contained >> build system >> >> - to support cross-compilation (for Raspberry Pi and, eventually, Android >> and iOS). >> >> ...and the always problematic documentation. >> >> I don't plan on dropping support for PyQt4 - lots of people will want to >> take advantage of bug fixes in Qt5, and its support for additional > devices, >> without porting from PyQt4 to PyQt5. >> >> At this stage I'm not going to give any dates, but most of the work for >> an >> initial PyQt5 release has already been done. >> >> Phil > > Phil - > > If you are in need of assistance with documentation, put some feelers out > there among PyQt developers. I would be glad to assist in my free time.
Thanks - I will. The plan is to write a tool that contributors can use to translate the Qt5 docs from C++ to Python. This will allow updates made to the original docs to be tracked so that corresponding changes to the Python version can be identified as being needed. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
