[PySide] Significant news regarding Qt 5/PySide : VFX Reference Platform CY2016

[Erik Johansson]

All involved companies take the VFX platform very seriously. I don't have
any doubts it will get implemented. Qt4 will also hit end of life and there
are a lot of advantages in Qt5.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Sebastian Elsner | RISE <
sebastian at risefx.com> wrote:

>  Huh, we'll see how this goes. It took Autodesk roughly 10 year to switch
> from gcc 4.1 to gcc 4.4. Moving those massive Maya/Nuke apps to Qt5 is a
> huge task. I guess they will rather spend time on features that can be
> marketed...
>
>
> On 06/02/2015 10:48 AM, Jens Lindgren wrote:
>
> This is great news!
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Mik Wells <mikw at imagineersystems.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  News regarding Qt5 and Pyside:
>>
>>
>>
>> “The Working Group behind the VFX Reference Platform, the target platform
>> for building software for VFX, has just announced the draft
>> of the Platform for next year: CY2016. This platform represents the set
>> of components that all major software releases are expected to be built
>> against from January 2016.”
>>
>>
>>
>> “The major change for CY2016 is a move to Qt5 *which requires a port of
>> PySide and modifications to vanilla Qt* to resolve issues that impact
>> some DCC tools. The Working Group's aim is for this modified Qt to be
>> available to anyone who wishes to target the CY2016 Platform, and for all
>> major software vendors to build their CY2016 releases against the same
>> modified Qt. More details will be shared in due course.”
>>
>>
>>
>> For further info see http://www.vfxplatform.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Mik Wells
>>
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