[PyQt] PyQt5 roadmap-guesstimate?

[Sebastian Sauer]

On 01/07/2013 06:43 PM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:05:48 +0700, Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org> wrote:
>> 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.

Yes, lot of thanks for the very detailed answer!

>
> 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.

:)