[PyQt] Roadmap, Future Releases etc.

[Phil Thompson]

On 26 Jan 2016, at 9:24 pm, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2016-01-24 13:25 GMT+01:00 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>:
>> There are a few things going on in the Qt world at the moment which will impact PyQt so I thought it was worth outlining the plans for future releases of Riverbank packages.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the updates and your tireless work. It all sounds
> great to me, especially that PyQtCharts and PyQtDataVisualizations
> will follow and be available under GPL.
> 
> I have just one question below.
> 
>> 
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>> SIP v4
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>> SIP v4.18 will be released soon. v4.18.x will be the last series of releases (ie. there will be no v4.19). This release is expected to support the generation of Python type hint stub files. However it's main purpose is to issue deprecation warnings for any feature used that isn't supported by SIP v5. SIP v4 will be supported for "some time" (at most a year) after the release of SIP v5.
>> 
>> SIP v5
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>> SIP v5 will be released when ready. It will not be radically different to SIP v4. All deprecated features will be removed. All internal knowledge of PyQt will be removed. It will be able to be installed from PyPi.
>> 
>> PyQt v4
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>> PyQt v4.12 will be released soon. As Qt v4 is no longer supported, v4.12.x will be the last series of releases. It will support both SIP v4 and SIP v5. It will be supprted for the forseeable future but new releases will be relatively infrequent.
>> 
>> PyQt v5
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>> PyQt v5.6 will be released soon - depending on the release of Qt v5.6. New features of Qt will be added to PyQt as usual. It will support both SIP v4 and SIP v5. It is possible that new features may depend on SIP v5, but it will still be possible to use SIP v4 with those features disabled. It is planned that the Windows binary installers will no longer include Qt itself. This has become possible because installers for Python and Qt should be available that have been built with compatible compilers. It may even be possible to replace the PyQt installers with downloads from PyPi.
> 
> Am I reading you right here that there's a possibility that PyQt5 will
> be available from PyPI? If so, that is great news.
> 
> Is there active work to get PyQt5 on PyPI, or is it mostly plans/a
> future possibility?

The latter.

Phil