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[Patrick Stinson]

Phil,

Could you explain what makes the Qt resource system obsolete in a PyQt6 context? The Qt resource system itself seems to play an essential role in the toolkit. If you think it does not provide an essential function, then I am intrigued to hear more.

But if you do think it plays an essential role, then perhaps you are suggesting that resource files are preprocessed into C++ source via rcc instead of python source via a pyrcc6? If so, I could see that for pyqtdeploy projects but how would one import Qt resources when running a PyQt app from the command line during development?

-Patrick

> On Sep 23, 2020, at 9:42 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23/09/2020 18:33, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> the download page says, that 'pyrcc' has been removed. What will be
>> the successor? The eric-ide sources use resource files and thus
>> depends on pyrcc.
> 
> I don't plan a successor as I don't see the point of resource files in a Python context.
> 
> What do you use it for?
> 
> Phil