[PyQt] PyQt5 roadmap-guesstimate?

[Phil Thompson]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:02:42 -0600, "Jonathan Harper" <jon at white-walls.net>
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.
>> 
>> 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