[SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

[Martin Kolman]

26.12.2013 23:34, Mikael Hermansson:
>
> Its not my opinion it's a fact why should a new platform depend on 
> deprecated libs or language versions when we know it very soon will 
> disappear even from upstream projects? And dists?
>
> Its only leads to maintanance hell. And when it disappear developers 
> and endusers gets angry because apps not work.
>
> AFAIK Jolla don't recommend python2 even if it still exists in MeR or 
> the repos it may very well dissapear sooner or later.
>
> So if you really want PyQT you better depend on python3 because that 
> IS the future.
>
I think PyQt5 supports Python 3 and can be built against it just fine.
>
> Also think about the endusers, I know very well that its fun to play 
> with every libs and possible combination but still can't hold every 
> possible combination and endusers are probadly not intrested to 
> install to many thirdparty repositorys just to get one application 
> work. Right now it already seems to be an issues with all those 
> thirdparty dropbox links releases latest days...
>
> Regards
>
> Mikael
>
> On Thursday 26 December 2013 20.15.19 Jens Persson wrote:
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> > Well, that's your opinion. But today it's Python2 that is default in
>
> > Sailfish and not three and that's why I built PyQt with two. Afaik all
>
> > Python modules currently available as default (dev mode enabled) are 
> built
>
> > with Python2.
>
> >
>
> > Greets Jens
>
> >
>
> > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Mikael Hermansson <mike at 7b4.se> wrote:
>
> > > AFAIK python is NOT installed from scratch in sf. also if python 
> will be
>
> > > supported it will be python3 as thomas already has said.
>
> > >
>
> > > Thats the way to go. Python 2 should be seen as deprecated on new
>
> > > platforms IMHO...
>
> > >
>
> > > Regards
>
> > >
>
> > > Mikael
>
> > >
>
> > > Thu Dec 26 2013 19:00:35 GMT+0100 (CET) skrev Jens Persson:
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> > > >PyQt works very well on the Jolla phone and you can get it from
>
> > > >Openrepos.
>
> > > >It should support the whole Qt C++ API except for deprecated 
> modules. As
>
> > > >Sailfish is using Python2 by default I've built it with that. Porting
>
> > > >from
>
> > > >Pyside to PyQt is very easy and takes only "a few hours" for a 
> small app
>
> > > >and you can publish them on Openrepos as Harbour does not support 
> PyQt
>
> > > >and
>
> > > >maybe never will. Just remember that PyQt is GPLv3 so you must 
> use that
>
> > > >license or pay for a commercial license from Riverbankcomputing. IMHO
>
> > > >this
>
> > > >is not a big problem as most Python apps are opensource and you 
> better
>
> > > >stick with native code for closed source anyway.
>
> > > >
>
> > > >Greets Jens
>
> > > >
>
> > > >On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Ye Zetao <kongkongyzt at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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> > > >> Hello,I am a developer of python and I know that Sailfish 
> support Qt
>
> > >
>
> > > with
>
> > >
>
> > > >> C++, but I am not familiar with C++,So I want to know that if 
> Sailfish
>
> > > >> support PyQt5 ? Thanks :)
>
> > > >>
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