"PyQt because they fear<br>
it's abandoned, and PySide because it's just not ready for prime-time yet."<br><br>This is clearly why i'ven't yet did the switch from gtk ...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/19 Attila Csipa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maemo@csipa.in.rs">maemo@csipa.in.rs</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wednesday 18 November 2009 11:30:32 Matti Airas wrote:<br>
> you're interested in maintaining PyQt on Maemo in the future, maybe you<br>
> could arrange with Luciano Wolf and/or Phil Thompson (the current PyQt<br>
> garage project admins) to have you appointed as a new project admin?<br>
<br>
> Since there are no active maintainers for PyQt on Maemo, I think you<br>
> should feel free to update the packages in any case.<br>
<br>
</div>I have written to both persons in question and had a positive response from<br>
Phil Thompson, still waiting for Luciano's response.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Having said all this, I strongly encourage Python Qt developers on Maemo<br>
> to use PySide instead of PyQt. We'll be generating our future Maemo 6<br>
> API bindings using PySide, so if you want to be able to utilize them,<br>
> you'll need to go with PySide in any case. In addition, having only one<br>
> set of Python Qt binding libraries on the device is probably greatly<br>
> preferable to the end user. I understand PySide is at the moment a bit<br>
> rough, but the situation will improve a lot by the end of the year.<br>
<br>
</div>PyQt can _at least_ serve as a stopgap till then, especially since people can<br>
use the tried and true PyQt today without fearing the rough edges of PySide,<br>
and then switch if they think PySide has reached a point where it benefits<br>
them more. The worst case scenario is IMHO people not using *either*<br>
(potentially giving up on development altogether), PyQt because they fear<br>
it's abandoned, and PySide because it's just not ready for prime-time yet.<br>
<br>
As for having two bindings, well, true, but then again, end users don't care<br>
about GTK vs Qt and they'll have to have both in the future, just as they do<br>
on the (Linux) desktop.<br>
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