Qt for Python Development Notes

2022

17. February 2022

• General
  • New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
• Infrastructure & Releases
  • 3.10.0 configuration to be tested
  • Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
  • Testing PyPy on the CI
  • Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
• Bugs & Features
  • Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
  • QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
  • PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
  • Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
  • PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
  • PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
  • PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
  • PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()

10. February 2022

• General
• Bugs & Features
  • PYSIDE-1806 CMake version check fixed
  • PYSIDE-1804 Big endian test failure fixed
  • Work in progress to add further QML decorators
  • PYSIDE-1702 snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
  • PYSIDE-1758 Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
  • PYSIDE-535 Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
  • PYSIDE-1765 Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
  • Work in progress on: PYSIDE-1753 setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)

03. February 2022

• General
• Infra & Releases
  • 6.2.3 was released.
  • Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
  • OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
• Bugs & Features
  • Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
  • Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
  • Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
  • PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
  • PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
  • Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
  • Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
  • PyPy Compatibility:
    • Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
    • Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
  • PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
  • Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator

27. January 2022

• General
  • Communicate issue with Apple Silicon and our wheels. There is a bug on Python so using limited API and creating wheels with Python 3.8, make them unusable for 3.6 and 3.7
• Infra & Releases
  • 6.2.3 to be release soon.
• Bugs & Features
  • Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
  • Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
  • Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
  • PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
  • Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
  • QPainter was transformed into a context manager
  • Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
  • Working on a new tree example
  • 1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
  • Add threaded OpenGL example
  • Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
  • Continue work on QML integration

20. January 2022

• General
• Infra & Releases
  • 6.2.3 release next week
  • Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
• Bugs & Features
  • QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
  • Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
  • Fixing general bugs from support
  • Adapting new API for 6.3
  • Improving QML story with custom types
  • PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.

13. January 2022

• Infra & Releases
  • Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
  • New version of Gerrit is available as well.
  • 5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
  • 5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
• Bugs and Features
  • PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
  • Improved documentation
  • Looking for new features for Shiboken
  • Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
  • PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
  • PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
  • Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
  • QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
  • Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
  • PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
  • uic missing imports
  • PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
  • QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods

06. January 2022

• General
  • New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
• Infra & Release
  • Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
  • 5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
  • 6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
• Bugs & Features
  • PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
  • Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
  • Research to get new Shiboken features
  • Updating translations
  • In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
  • Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
    • There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
  • PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
  • true_property issues were solved.
  • continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
  • research on manylinux compatibility

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