[Qgis-developer] Qt5 and Python 3

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 05/04/2016 11:36 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 04-05-16 11:13, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>>>  * Switch to another API (sip.enableautoconversion(false), similar to
>>>> SIP API V1). Resulting in countless lines of code in plugins requiring
>>>> to be updated.
>> without any chance of automation?
> 
> Just to be carefull: what's an easy 'automation' is for a dev is a big
> hurdle for some plugin authors... And we have a lot authors already...
> 
> But authors have to update their plugins anyway isn't it? So how
> countless is countless?

Every feature attribute which is accessed, every QSetting which is
handled...
Countless!

> 
> I'm in favour with 'looking into the future', but let us now walk too
> much in front of the distro's. Packaging Qt will be the next step, and I
> understand from Debian packagers it is a lot of work to do....

I think the question is, do we risk many plugins not being updated (like
you wrote above it can be hard for some plugin devs). Or leave some
users behind with QGIS 2.latest for some time.

Instead we could also ship them with their dependencies via an
infrastructure such as

 * http://linuxbrew.sh/
 * https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/
 * https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps

Matthias