[maemo-developers] PySide: Python for Qt version 1.0.0~rc1 for Maemo 5 released

[From: Bruno Araujo]

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

The PySide team is proud to announce the first release candidate of PySide:
Python for Qt version 1.0.0 for Maemo 5. PySide provides a complete
set of LGPL-licensed
Qt bindings for Python, including full QML and QtMobility support.

The binary packages for PySide 1.0.0~rc1 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.

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
===============================

Since beta 5, no new features have been added. Instead, a total of 28 bugs
have been fixed. See the list of fixed bugs at the end of this message.

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

We intend this to be the release candidate in the literal sense of the term:
only major regressions and critical bugs will be fixed between the release
candidate and 1.0 final. Therefore, fixes to any bugs in our Bugzilla [3] with
priority less than P1 will be applied only after the 1.0 release. However,
please file any bugs you find - the bug reports are vital in both increasing
the PySide product quality and in ensuring that your issues get resolved in a
timely manner!

Barring any major quality issues, the 1.0 release will happen in two weeks
from now. After that, maintenance work for fixing bugs and improving the code
quality will continue, as well as work towards more substantial improvements
such as Python 3 support and memory footprint optimization.

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

PySide is the Nokia-sponsored Python Qt bindings project, providing
access to not only the complete Qt 4.7 framework but also to 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
==================

561     pyside-uic generates invalid code when tab name is not translatable
652     Segfault when using QTextBlock::setUserData due to missing ownership
transfer
653     Crash after calling QWizardPage.wizard()
657     Signal emission inside QtMobility isn't working properly
661     Compilation failure when QGtkStyle not found
662     QtGui.iterator not iterable
663     Crash on exit when passing QNetworkAccessManager around
667     Crash on exit
668     QFileSystemModel setRootPath stops application from quitting.
671     Limitation on the number of signals
675     QGraphicsLinearLayout segfault
677     generated code has setParent twice
679     QWebPage miss extension function
684     New-style signals does not accept signals with enums as arguments.
630     Fails to resolve overload for QCursor(QBitmap, QBitmap, int, int)
635     QToolBar.addAction not the same as in C++/PyQt4
638     Documentation for phonon doesn't show class inheritance diagrams.
643     QTabWidget.insertTab not taking ownership
649     Too-picky typechecking on numeric types: use __float__ / __int__.
660     QMimeData type deleted prematurely when overriding mime-type in
QStandardItemModel drag and drop
665     Wrong output from pyside-uic with QButtonGroup
666     QByteArray does not support slices
674     QGraphicsScene::clear() is missing
678     Documentation for QIODevice is not generated
681     Unicode support for trUtf8 method
682     Descriptions missing from online documentation
683     Warning when using Slot without provinding the arguments
687     [PATCH] QUiLoader code example crashes


[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