[PyKDE] PyQt v4 Roadmap

[Phil Thompson]

I've put up a short roadmap for PyQt v4 on the website, and the text is
below. Any comments welcome.

Phil


PyQt v4 will support Qt v4 only. It will not support earlier versions of
Qt in the way that PyQt v3 supports Qt v1 to v3. PyQt v3 will continue to
be supported.

PyQt v4 will require SIP v4. SIP v3 will not be supported. This also means
that Python v2.3 or later will be required.

A GPL version of PyQt for Windows will be supported. A self-installing
binary package, with the Qt libraries statically linked, will be provided.

It will be possible to install PyQt v4 alongside PyQt v3.

Compatibility with PyQt v3 will not be a high priority. The Qt3Compat
library will not be wrapped (with the possible exception of Q3Canvas and
related classes).

The separate Qt v4 libraries will be wrapped as separate Python modules.
The module names will be the same as the corresponding library (eg.
QtCore, QtGui) and be grouped as a single Python package called PyQt4. The
suggested programming style for new applications would then be:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)

pyuic will be re-implemented in Python so that it can be used as a
standalone application, and as a Python module imported directly by
applications.