[Qgis-psc] [Qt-for-Python] report of the technical group

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Denis,
in the last PSC meeting we discussed this and agreed with your proposal.

Thanks a lot for taking care of this!

Cheers
Marco

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 07:45, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear PSC,
>
> Following the report of the evaluation of Qt-for-Python for QGIS' Python
> bindings and its conclusion [0], we proposed [1] to create a group of
> meaningful QGIS
> developers to propose some recommendations on what to do next.
>
> Alessandro, Julien, Matthias, Nyall and I met and the conclusions are the
> following:
>
> * we recognize Qt for Python as a valuable potential solution for QGIS’
> bindings
>
> * but we cannot take a formal final decision at this stage due to the
> remaining technical unknowns
>
> * the global amount of work required is considerable (50 to 100 days) and
> imprecise
>
> * we recommend to investigate more, proceed block by block and reevaluate
> at each step if we are still moving in the right direction
>
> * this procedure should be a grant for the project to avoid wasting money
> (e.g. deciding after 90% of the whole effort to finally stick to PyQt) and
> for the developers (workload estimation)
>
> * we recommend to use the 5000€ of development budgeted for 2022 for the
> next block to bring a broader set of tests in QGIS core running with PySide
> (under Qt6) so the group could meet again, reevaluate the decision and
> potentially propose a follow up
>
> * considering the short amount of time dedicated and the work already done
> by OPENGIS, it makes sense in terms of efficiency that OPENGIS also handles
> this block (other devs might get involved in the potential next ones)
>
> Hereby, we recommend the PSC to sponsor a follow-up on the investigation
> of using Qt-for-Python for QGIS’ bindings.
>
> For the technical group,
> Denis
>
>
> [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/237
> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2021-November/009568.html
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