[PyQt] PyQt5 roadmap-guesstimate?

[Jonathan Harper]

> > Hi,
> >
> > reading the backlogs and all I was able to find related to support for
> > PyQt at 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.

Regards,
Jonathan Harper