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Subject:    Re: [PyQt] Roadmap, Future Releases etc.
From:       Elvis Stansvik <elvstone () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-01-27 7:19:12
Message-ID: CAHms=eYwCYhvYOZ4qmc0YaFh_no-MkTUceE2gSRxDsUbiC2egw () mail ! gmail ! com
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2016-01-26 23:09 GMT+01:00 Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com>:
> On 26 Jan 2016, at 9:24 pm, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 2016-01-24 13:25 GMT+01:00 Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com>:
> > > There are a few things going on in the Qt world at the moment which will impact \
> > > PyQt so I thought it was worth outlining the plans for future releases of \
> > > Riverbank packages.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the updates and your tireless work. It all sounds
> > great to me, especially that PyQtCharts and PyQtDataVisualizations
> > will follow and be available under GPL.
> > 
> > I have just one question below.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > SIP v4
> > > ------
> > > 
> > > SIP v4.18 will be released soon. v4.18.x will be the last series of releases \
> > > (ie. there will be no v4.19). This release is expected to support the \
> > > generation of Python type hint stub files. However it's main purpose is to \
> > > issue deprecation warnings for any feature used that isn't supported by SIP v5. \
> > > SIP v4 will be supported for "some time" (at most a year) after the release of \
> > > SIP v5. 
> > > SIP v5
> > > ------
> > > 
> > > SIP v5 will be released when ready. It will not be radically different to SIP \
> > > v4. All deprecated features will be removed. All internal knowledge of PyQt \
> > > will be removed. It will be able to be installed from PyPi. 
> > > PyQt v4
> > > -------
> > > 
> > > PyQt v4.12 will be released soon. As Qt v4 is no longer supported, v4.12.x will \
> > > be the last series of releases. It will support both SIP v4 and SIP v5. It will \
> > > be supprted for the forseeable future but new releases will be relatively \
> > > infrequent. 
> > > PyQt v5
> > > -------
> > > 
> > > PyQt v5.6 will be released soon - depending on the release of Qt v5.6. New \
> > > features of Qt will be added to PyQt as usual. It will support both SIP v4 and \
> > > SIP v5. It is possible that new features may depend on SIP v5, but it will \
> > > still be possible to use SIP v4 with those features disabled. It is planned \
> > > that the Windows binary installers will no longer include Qt itself. This has \
> > > become possible because installers for Python and Qt should be available that \
> > > have been built with compatible compilers. It may even be possible to replace \
> > > the PyQt installers with downloads from PyPi.
> > 
> > Am I reading you right here that there's a possibility that PyQt5 will
> > be available from PyPI? If so, that is great news.
> > 
> > Is there active work to get PyQt5 on PyPI, or is it mostly plans/a
> > future possibility?
> 
> The latter.

Alright. Good nonetheless.

Elvis

> 
> Phil
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