[PyQt] ANN: dip v0.3 Released

[Mike Ramirez]

On Monday 13 June 2011 20:17:56 Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2011, 10:12:03 Phil Thompson wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:45 +0200, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil at gmx.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > >> It also includes the ability to bind GUIs created using
> > >> traditional
> > >> means (ie. standard PyQt calls or Qt Designer) to models so that
> > >> those models are automatically updated by the GUI and vice versa.
> > > 
> > > Would dip be suitable (i.e. make it easier than "naked" PyQt) to put
> > > a
> > > GUI onto a bunch of SQlAlchemy objects?
> > 
> > Having thought about this a bit more...
> > 
> > No, but it's an interesting idea and may not be too difficult to do.
> > I'll
> > think about it a bit more...
> 
> As an aside, SQLAlchemy is the most advanced and therefore popular SQL ORM
> in the python world today. It would raise the "out of box" value of dip
> greatly.
> 
> I could imagine, that there's a need for a SQLAlchemy PyQt integration
> module (QSql replacement) as a glue layer in between.
> 

Not really, I've used sqlalchemy as is with pyqt before, just sub-classed a 
non sql model and used it as it's datasource for the model.  I do think that 
intergration would be better, atleast for the areas of caching and pagination. 
But as it stands now, it's not bad.


Mike