From kde-release-team Sun Mar 30 15:35:54 2008 From: Simon Edwards Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:35:54 +0000 To: kde-release-team Subject: Re: Pre-approved Languages Message-Id: <47EFB35A.6080502 () simonzone ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-release-team&m=120689092407204 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 30.03.08 08:19:33, Allen Winter wrote: > I'm not a kdebindings person, but I did try both korundum (ruby) and > I know PyQt/PyKDE for quite some time. > > Both have one drawback: > - PyQt/PyKDE are both mostly developed in private repositories of one > person (well, one for each), which means that fixes sometimes take a > bit longer and (especially PyQt4) don't follow our release cycles > But even though both bindings are in quite good shape - AFAIK and both > languages should be pre-approved. That is not entirely accurate. PyQt is developed privately at Riverbank Computing and snapshots are regularly made available. (It looks like Phil is publishing nightly snapshots). When a new version of Qt is released, the updated PyQt release quickly follows in general. Usually long before the next release of KDE which requires the new Qt. Phil has always been responsive to bug reports in my experience. PyKDE is split between Jim Bublitz and myself. Jim is the main PyKDE guy who does most of the big changes and tooling work for generating the bindings. Jim's time and bandwidth is limited which makes it hard for him to track SVN trunk. This is where I step in and manage PyKDE in kdebindings and integrating Jim's work into SVN. I also do maintenance work on PyKDE and update the bindings to track SVN (which I did leading up to 4.0). Jim has been sharing his knowledge with me to help increase PyKDE's "bus factor"[1]. PyQt and PyKDE have been around for bit a long time already and are highly mature. [1] "bus factor" is defined as the number of developers which need to be hit by a bus in order to completely derail a project. cheers, -- Simon Edwards | KDE-NL, Guidance tools, Guarddog Firewall simon@simonzone.com | http://www.simonzone.com/software/ Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice." _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team