[PySide] Ann: porting PySide to Qt5

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
> Hi Mathew,
>
> On 10.07.15 15:27, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> On 2015-07-09 16:45, Christian Tismer wrote:
>>> There is someone intensively working on porting PySide to Qt5,
>>> with some help from Autodesk.
>> Awesome! This is excellent news!
>>
>>> I started end of May and am still very busy to get the most
>>> important modules to compile.
>> Did you have any problems with *shiboken* and Qt5? Hopefully not; we
>> pushed a bunch of patches for that a little while back (that were
>> accepted and merged) and it seems to work for us.
>
> I used the official shiboken repos and had of course some problems,
> but compared with the huge amount of work on PySide, this was
> more like a warm-up.
> My shiboken version works fine after patching a few things.
> There are of course some errors which show only up with Qt5, which
> I circumvented, and it works for me.
>
>>
>> I don't know if or how much I'll be able to be involved personally,
>> though I will certainly benefit from this work. There's another group I
>> sometimes work with that might also get involved.
>>
>> Again, great to hear! Thanks for sharing!
>>
>
> Thanks a lot! Please let me know if some group might help.
> This is a bit too much for one person.
>
> Also, if you have personal hints, please let me know.
> There is, for instance, the question where I should put the
> issue tracker, and where things get merged into. If somebody
> like you can simply give me advice, that would simplify my
> life a lot ;-)

I can certainly help with github workflow, if that is of interest.

Cheers,

Matthew