[Qt-creator] Roadmap for Python support?

[achartier at fastmail.fm]

Hi Andre,

Thank you for the information. It sounds like full support in Qt Creator
for Python is still a ways off. I suppose for the time being we'll have
to use some other IDE for Python development (such as Aptana).

Thanks,

Alfonso

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013, at 12:56 PM, André Pönitz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:41:11AM -0800, achartier at fastmail.fm wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My colleagues and I already use Qt Creator for all our Qt development.
> 
> That's nice to hear.
> 
> > We will be writing a fair amount of Python for one of our upcoming
> > projects and would love to continue using Qt Creator for Python
> > development. While Qt Creator already seems to have Python syntax
> > highlighting and auto-indentation, auto-completion for Python still
> > seems to be missing.
> 
> Indeed.
>  
> > Are there plans to provide auto-completion functionality for Python in
> > the near future? What about built-in support for pdb and other Python
> > debuggers? In general, what is the roadmap (if there is one) for making
> > Qt Creator a great Python IDE?
> 
> There are two stories here. 
> 
> 1. Since the PythonEditor is now part of the main code base, it will be
> maintained to the degree that it will be kept compilable and usable after
> changes to core infrastructure. But that's about it. Feature development
> of the Python support is currently not on the roadmap of the core team
> and my personal bet would be that it won't end up there anytime soon.
> 
> 2. I once had some (absolutely basic, a bit stepping, breakpoints, data
> display, no threads etc) Python debugging based on pdb running as "yet
> another use case" when working on the "debugger backend abstraction" for
> Creator. That's dysfunctional right now, but reviving it should be
> straightforward, less than a day of work. I have also a semi-functional
> qlalr based scanner for Python 2 hanging around, but going from there to
> a
> real parser, integrating that properly, together with some kind of
> project
> explorer integration or "project management" would be quite some effort.
> If someone wants to work into that direction I'd happily help to
> integrate
> stuff, and perhaps handle the debugging side, but not much more than
> that.
> 
> Andre'