PyQt6 and SIP v6 Snapshots Available

[Giuseppe Corbelli]

On 10/17/20 11:38 AM, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>>> I saw while browsing through the sources of the latest snapshot that
>>> it includes a Python only implementation of pylupdate. Unless I missed
>>> something this tool seems to extract translation string from Python
>>> sources only. If this is correct do you intend to add an extractor for
>>> .ui files as well to be on the same level as the lupdate tool of Qt?
>>> If that is not the intention and I didn't just miss this, what would
>>> be the workflow for generation of translatable apps?
>>
>> Three possibilities I think...
>>
>> - run pylupdate6 on the generated .py file
>> - lupdate on the .ui file
>> - I could add the reading of .ui files to pylupdate6.
>>
>> The last would be very easy it to do if that makes things easy.
> 
> Phil, please include option three. That would allow to extract the 
> translations with one command instead of several. Option 1 (the current 
> one) would be the most complex because one would have to ensure, that 
> the .ui file is compiled first annd pylupdate executed thereafter. 
> Option 2 would be a comprimise but would require lupdate to be present 
> on the machine and would also need two commands. So Option 3 is the most 
> straight forward one.

I would vote for option 3 too.
As far as I'm concerned pylupdate6 could also use lupdate under the 
hood, as I think it's perfectly reasonable to require a pyqt + qt 
development environment.

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Giuseppe Corbelli