[Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 and PyQT v2 update

Marco Bernasocchi marco at bernawebdesign.ch
Thu May 2 00:27:42 PDT 2013


and here the link... thx Matthias

[1] 
http://spyder-ide.blogspot.ch/2011/06/pyqt-api-1-pyqt-api-2-and-pyside.html

On 05/01/2013 05:34 PM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Ciao Marco,
>
> Bin ich unfähig oder hast du den Link vergessen?
>
> Gruss,
> Matthias
>
> On Die 30 Apr 2013 18:24:44 CEST, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
>> On 04/30/2013 04:01 PM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>> It was not my intent to encourage the postponement of these features to
>>> a later release.
>>>
>>> I wanted to get a decision about inclusion or non-inclusion which is
>>> not based on time-constraints of the developers, but instead is
>>> strategic decision.
>>>
>> I think i'd be good to break all _now_ if possible but maybe we can
>> have some sort of compatibility layer like here [1]?
>>> In my opinion, it can shed a bad light onto the project and discourage
>>> developers from maintaining their plugins if they've got to rework the
>>> whole plugin with several subsequent major releases.
>> definetly
>>>
>>> If this is a top-priority goal for 2.0 I don't mind having it excepted
>>> from the API freeze (and therefore rendering the API freeze pretty much
>>> useless) for a week or two.
>>>
>>> Concerning Python 3: This is a mail from 2010 which states, that there
>>> is the possibility to support Python 2 and Python 3 at the same time:
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2010-January/008803.html
>>> If this is really possible, I don't see any problems with postponing
>>> the Python 3 update, as we'll be able to have a painless grace period.
>>>
>> yes, I think python 3 can wait, PyQt api 2 mkes the code not only
>> python3 compatible, but also much simpler.
>>
>> ciao
>>> Thank you for your feedback
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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