PyQt6 and SIP v6 Snapshots Available

[Phil Thompson]

On 23/09/2020 20:15, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> Phil,
> 
> Could you explain what makes the Qt resource system obsolete in a
> PyQt6 context?

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/pyqtdeploy/pyrcc.html

> 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.

If there is something that you cannot do with existing Python techniques 
then I'll happily reconsider.

> 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?

What is the requirement for creating Qt resources in the first place?

Phil