[Interest] PySide2 installer for windows?

[Croitor Alexandru]

Hi,

Point 1: At the official first release of Qt For Python / PySide2 which was
bundled with Qt 5.11, we never provided py27 windows packages. So
officially, we haven't dropped any packages, because they weren't there in
the first place.

Point 2: Packages for py2.7 for PySide2 do not exist not because of py2
EoL, but rather because the official py27 interpreter is built with MSVC
2008, whereas Qt is built with MSVC2015, and we deemed that with the
current PySide2 codebase, it is not safe to mix MSVC runtimes.

This was communicated multiple times, and is mentioned on the wiki as well.
Yet people still insist on bringing it up, disregarding that such packages
are not safe to use.

People are free to try and build Py2.7 + Qt + PySide2 with the same MSVC
version, and use that.

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 7:03 PM Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

> On Friday, 17 May 2019 18:26:11 PDT Bob Hood wrote:
> > On 5/17/2019 2:58 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > On Friday, 17 May 2019 10:16:04 PDT Bob Hood wrote:
> > >> They have (prematurely, imo) abandoned the combination of Windows +
> > >> Python
> > >> v2.7.  You will only be able to install PySide2 under Windows with
> Python
> > >> v3.x now.
> > >
> > > Less than 7 and a half months of support for Python 2 left, until it
> EOLs,
> > > after a 5 year extension. Everyone has migrated their business critical
> > > applications to Python 3 by now, right?
> >
> > Well, to me "7 and a half months...left" is not EOL, and I don't know
> > precisely when Python v2/Windows support was jettisoned, but you can add
> > that difference to the duration as well.That's how I personally define
> > "prematurely."
>
> Python2 support was deprecated by the Python community and the Python
> Software
> Foundation many years ago. Its EOL was pushed from Jan 1, 2015 to Jan 1,
> 2020.
>
> The point is not about Pyside, it's about *Python*. People have had over
> 10
> years to switch from 2.x to 3. With less than 7½ months left, I'm sure
> everyone with critical applications have already switch, right?
>
>         https://pythonclock.org/
>
> > But the decision is made; I'm not instigating a brush war over it.  I'm
> not
> > invested in PySide2, and neither are my customers. It was just going to
> be a
> > convenience for them as long as we continued to support Python v2.  Now
> it
> > won't.
>
> I think the point is that it's not worth the resources required to build
> and
> test the Python2 bulld when so few are (supposed to be) still using it.
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel System Software Products
>
>
>
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