Qt for Python Development Notes

2021

21. January 2021

• Infra update
  • 'dev' branch seems to be the only broken (maybe 5.15)
  • Provisioning is affected
  • need to create lts-5.15 branch for commercial releases
  • WinRT is broken (at a Qt/CI level)
• Bug fixes
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1458 Discussion about macOS symlinks
  • (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
  • (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
  • (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
• Features
  • Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
    • Both options in 6.1,
    • Only 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken' from 6.2 on.
  • Designer plugin: set environment in the launcher script (instead of the rpath option)
  • Removing extra QtCharts namespace (it was removed in Qt) -> QtDataVisualization?
    • Externals helping the migration process.
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1477 clang options for shiboken cross build
• Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)

14. January 2021

• Qt Bug fixing week
• Infra update
  • Missing 5.15 merge to tqtc
• Bug fixes
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1470 fixed
  • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 in progress
• Features
  • Contacting people at other IDEs groups to provide a better PySide support. (to create a user story)
  • NumPy support to accept numpy.array as 'some' Qt types
  • Designer plugin works continues (needs libshiboken) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1455
• Webinar ideas
  • __feature__ and Python properties
  • Interaction with other modules

7. January 2021

• Infra update
  • libclang install fixes (issues related to 6.0 and 10.0)
    • from the MSVC update, we require 10.0 for 5.15 and 6.0
• Bug fixes
  • PYSIDE-1447 qapp flag
  • PYSIDE-1463 snake_case init issue
  • PYSIDE-1470 shiboken delete qapp
  • PYSIDE-79 reopened due to a leak introduced by the fix to PYSIDE-68
• Features
  • Possible research PYSIDE-163
  • Refactoring shiboken
  • PYSIDE-1455 designer plugin
  • Snippets translators
  • Deployment story for PySide6

2020

• Qt for Python Development Notes 2020

2019

• Qt for Python Development Notes 2019

2018

• Qt for Python Development Notes 2018