[maemo-developers] PySide: Python for Qt version 1.0.0~beta5 for Maemo 5 released

[From: Bruno Araujo]

[cross posting to maemo-developers and pymaemo-developers mailing lists]

The PySide team is happy to announce the fifth beta release of
PySide: Python for Qt. PySide provides a complete set of LGPL-licensed
Qt bindings for Python, including full QML and QtMobility support. Any
software written for N900 using PySide will work as-is on the upcoming
Harmattan and MeeGo platforms.

The binary packages for PySide 1.0.0~beta5 are already available in
the maemo.org extras-devel repository. To use them, install the
python-pyside metapackage which depends on every individual module
package. Respectively, PySide Mobility may be installed using the
python-qtmobility metapackage.

The source code packages can be acquired by referring to our download
wiki page [1] or by pulling the relevant tagged versions from our git
repositories [2].

Major changes since 1.0.0~beta5
===============================

This is a bug fix release. Since beta4, a total of 23
bugs have been fixed. See the list of fixed bugs at the end of this message.

Path towards 1.0 release
========================

The list of bugs in our Bugzilla [3] having P3 or higher priority is
getting short enough that we are beginning to feel confident for to do
the 1.0 release soon. The next release will be our first
release candidate (rc1): it will incorporate all or most of the
currently open P2/P3 bugs, but after that, only clear regressions
(features which have worked in previous PySide versions but not in rc1)
will be fixed before 1.0. Then, the 1.0 release will happen two weeks
from rc1.

About PySide
============

PySide is the Nokia-sponsored Python Qt bindings project, providing
access to not only the complete Qt 4.7 framework but also Qt Mobility,
as well as to generator tools for rapidly generating bindings for any
Qt-based libraries.

The PySide project is developed in the open, with all facilities you'd
expect from any modern OSS project such as all code in a git repository
[2], an open Bugzilla [3] for reporting bugs, and an open design
process [4]. We welcome any contribution without requiring a transfer of
copyright.

List of bugs fixed
==================

640     Crash in example elasticnodes.py
627     Compile error in generatorrunner - missing abstractmetalang.h, etc
632     QLineEdit.getTextMargins() segmentation fault
647     QGLWidget.bindTexture(QPixmap) causes program crash
650     Missing bindings for QNetworkProxyFactory
651     Calling disconnect() with no arguments causes segfault
562     pyside-uic does not generate some layers properties
565     QImage missing *data constructors
590     Error QFileDialog.getSaveFileName with DontConfirmOverwrite option
593     __repr__ should be more Pythonic
605     Using metaclasses with the PySide classes doesn't work
612     QColor.__reduce__ is not accurate
613     QSvgRenderer chooses QByteArray overload when given a file path
616     error compiling when public and private methods differ by the const-ness
617     conversion from C++ enum to PySide does not set repr() properly
618     QAbstractItemModel.createIndex only creates a weak reference to ptr
633     bool of null QDate (possibly other empty QString/null QObj types?)
returns True for empty instance; probably should be False
641     some errors in diagramscene.py
655     bad re-implementations of QApplication.notify result in a SystemError
656     cannot inherit from QCoreApplication
659     removeParent() performs very poorly when a parent has >10000 items
566     'PySide.QtGui.QImage' object has no attribute 'scanLine'
636     Unable to navigate back to the main site from the generated
documentation

[1] http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideDownloads
[2] http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside
[3] http://bugs.openbossa.org/
[4] http://www.pyside.org/docs/pseps/psep-0001.html

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Bruno Araújo
Software developer - openBossa Labs - INdT