[Development] QtWebChannel: Upstreaming of Python client

[Johannes Lochmann]

Hi Arno,

>On 24 October 2016 at 00:53, Arno Rehn <a.rehn at menlosystems.com> wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> At my company we've developed a Python client for QtWebChannel. It 
>> consists of a more or less direct translation of qwebchannel.js and 
>> an additional layer on top of it, providing async/await syntax 
>> support for Python3.5+.
>> Ideally, we'd like to push this upstream. Before I post a patch to 
>> gerrit, I'd like to get some feedback on whether this is wanted at all.
>> QtWebChannel seems to be pretty much focused on HTML and the web, but 
>> the infrastructure behind it can be used for remoting from pretty 
>> much any scripting language.
>> I'd also plan on implementing a C++ client, maybe also Ruby and 
>> Matlab (since we're using this in a scientific setting).
>>
>> What's your take on this?
>
>Seems useful. Would be interested to try it out.

I agree, this sounds pretty useful, especially given that we’re also working again on pyside since this spring.

...especially an implementation in Python and C++ both from the Qt Project could be a really nice combo - sign me up!

Regards,

Johannes