[PySide] Let's get serious for Pyside to support Qt5

[Tony Barbieri]

I work in Visual Effects and there are many different applications using Qt
these days with PySide bundled.  This year the VES (Visual Effects Society)
has started a push for companies to start following their platform
guidelines for which versions of libraries should be supported within a
given year.  For example in 2015, Qt 4.8.x and PySide 1.2.x are still the
versions they are targeting.  If in 2016 Qt 5.x.x is selected then I would
imagine the various software companies will want to have a PySide version
that supports it.

More information about the VES platform can be found here:
http://www.vfxplatform.com/

A few companies using Qt in Visual Effects software are Autodesk
<http://www.autodesk.com/>, The Foundry <http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/> and Side
Fx <http://www.sidefx.com/>.  It would be great if they could lend some
development support to help continue to push PySide forward.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Todd Rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Taking a bit of a step back, what is currently holding Qt 5.x back
> from allowing completely dynamic bindings?  Has anyone talked to the
> Qt devs to see if these pieces could be implemented?
>
> If it would be possible to avoid the binding generation step and just
> go straight to dynamic bindings, that would reduce the work needed to
> maintain PySide significantly, and would help all of the other
> bindings communities in the process.
>
> This might be something to look into before investing too much time or
> effort in creating new static bindings.
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Steve Payne <gliblib247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think we need to have two different conversations that are related.
> >
> > 1. What needs to be changed in PySide and shiboken to support Qt5?
> > 2. What are the options for long term support?
> >
> > I agree that the prospect of having corporate backing for the project
> would
> > be nice but unstable and probably unlikely so if we want it we need to do
> > it. I use PySide constantly in a professional environment and although I
> > cannot get my company to allow me to officially work to develop PySide,
> it
> > is in my professional interest to keep it alive. There have been a
> number of
> > pings to the list since Qt5 came out about migrating PySide that usually
> > disappear and the impending obsolescence of Qt4 really pushes this to be
> > serious.
> >
> > - Steve
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:04 PM, William Ferreira <williamgeraldo at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > John Ehresman, I was analyzing the commits the time and saw that you did
> > much.
> >
> > I did a little post here just wondering what we can do to help this
> process.
> >
> > If you can guide us believe that many would like to help.
> >
> > 2014-12-10 14:56 GMT-02:00 John Ehresman <jpe at wingware.com>:
> >>
> >> On 12/10/14, 11:38 AM, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> >> > * Stany MARCEL <stanypub at gmail.com> [2014-12-10 17:31:44 +0100]:
> >> >> Hello
> >> >>
> >> >> Maybe a crowd funding to hire a full time developer should be a good
> >> >> idea.
> >> >> VLC association have done a kickstarter to fund the dev of VLC
> windows
> >> >> 8
> >> >> support.
> >> >
> >> > I'd be in!
> >> >
> >> >> Is pyside currently only community driven or is there any association
> >> >> or
> >> >> company behind, that could organize that.
> >> >
> >> > According to the Wikipedia page it was released by Nokia, so probably
> >> > Digia / The Qt Company would be the one to contact nowadays.
> >>
> >> PySide is in the Qt repository but its development is substantially
> >> community driven at this point.  I am the somewhat reluctant maintainer
> >> that hasn't been able to find much time to work on PySide recently.
> >>
> >> I don't think the VLC kickstarter is a good model for funding PySide
> >> development because VLC is a consumer application with many times the
> >> number of users as direct users of PySide (the developers using PySide,
> >> not the users of applications built with it).
> >>
> >> John
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > William Ferreira
> >
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Tony
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