[PyQt] PySide 2

[Gustavo A. Díaz]

Hi!

Excellent news!! I just stopped one project I was Developing cause the lack
of support from PySide of Qt5.

Cheers.

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2015-08-09 11:08 GMT-03:00 Marcus Ottosson <konstruktion at gmail.com>:

> Thanks for sharing, Florian.
>
> @Phil, what are your thoughts on this? Will it have any effect on the
> growth and development of PyQt? From a 10.000 feet view, you alone could
> potentially squash this effort in a matter of weeks by widening the license
> scheme and potentially gain 100% market share, and possibly gain added
> traction via open source contributions from the very same volunteers
> currently rounding up for PySide.
>
> Came across this interesting read recently, about the direction in which
> software is heading how it can be difficult to "compete with free", which
> made me think of this situation.
>
> - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033325.do
>
> PyQt is a great product of great quality. I personally wouldn't want to
> see this responsibility fall into the hands of Autodesk.
>
> On 5 August 2015 at 08:36, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
>
>> * Marcus Ottosson <konstruktion at gmail.com> [2015-08-05 09:22:32 +0200]:
>> > PySide is apparently getting support for Qt 5 with funding from
>> Autodesk.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > What's the PyQt community's take on this?
>>
>> I'm eager to try it out for my project[1] once it's in an usable state
>> - and once it has some widespread adoption in distros I'll probably
>> officially support it.
>>
>> From what I've seen with PySide/PyQt4, it should be relatively easy to
>> write a compatibility shim to make it work with both (provided there
>> are enough tests, which is a thing I'm working on).
>>
>> Florian
>>
>> [1] http://www.qutebrowser.org/
>>
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