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[[Category:Qt for Python]]
[[Category:Qt for Python]]
== 2019 ==
== 2020 ==
==== 5. September 2019 ====
  - Qt for Python 5.13.1 & 5.12.5
    - RTA for 5.13.1 released
    - 5.12.5 released next week
  - Branching
    - challenge is the building of Qt 6 while maintaining a stable Qt for Python build
    - one solution might be a QfP build for selected modules only
  - Team is planning a roadmapping session for QfP 5.15 release
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] (numpy) progressing
  - quite a few bugs have been fixed e.g. [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1051 PYSIDE-1051]
  - Looking at QStringView exposure in Python
  - Continued work on uic/rcc tooling
  - General tooling improvements when working with QtCreator and Python
  - Updated some build instructions for QfP on Fedora


==== 29. August 2019 ====
==== 30. January 2020 ====
  - Releases (5.12.5 & 5.13.1) upcoming
* ...
  - Release candidate wheels under test for both releases (Linux & macOS, Win is outstanding)
* ...
      - last patch for 5.13.1 is [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1079 PYSIDE-1079]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] continued progress
  - new look at our example basket
  - continued work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1033 PYSIDE-1033]
  - uic and rcc can output python code -> needs deployment changes in Pyside2 -> target release Qt for Python 5.14
      - adding support in QtCreator being able to deal with the above python tools


==== 22. August 2019 ====
==== 23. January 2020 ====
  - Work on QtOpcUa started  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-952 PYSIDE-952]
* Fix for CI/macOS problem is in, but it requires some merges in Qt5. Until all required merges are done, we will use Qt5 5.14.1 with Qt For Python 5.14
  - Solved [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1079 PYSIDE-1079] partially, need the structure
* Research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
    of 5.14 to implement the typing.Optional feature.
* Proposed an "until" attribute for typesystem files to make it possible to build Pyside 5.14 against Qt 5.12  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1195 PYSIDE-1195]
  - Solved and closed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1077 PYSIDE-1077] wrong init code
* Improved the view of compare app for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
  - Solved [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1073 PYSIDE-1073], waiting for review
* Analysis of PyQt5 and SIP implementation
  - Refined and closed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-945 PYSIDE-945].


==== 15. August 2019 ====
==== 16. January 2020 ====
  - Partially solved [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1052 PYSIDE-1052] (constants missing).
* CI/macOS problems are being worked.
  - Solved at the same time [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-945 PYSIDE-945].
* qApp fix waiting to be merged.
    Solved a QtCore.Slot() bug that dates back to 2010-11-03.
* first attempts to tackle [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
  - Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1073 PYSIDE-1073] trying to fix the bug.
* Python 3.8 fix to old branches is required for distributions using 5.12 LTS like Conda.
  - Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1051 PYSIDE-1051] trying to fix the bug.
* Working on Q_ENUM support.
  - Merges/work on continuous integration infrastructure (preparing 5.13.1)
* Viewer for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] is ready to try. Please check out https://git.qt.io/playground/pyside-compare.git and give feedback.


==== 8. August 2019 ====
==== 9. January 2020 ====
  - Licenses on Pypi
* [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1185 PYSIDE-803] needs to be tackled soon, it's critical, and we cannot carry that into Qt6.
    - pypi is used for commercial and open source users
* Python 3.8.1 on Windows has [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285797/ some issues] while building.
    - currently only publishing the open source license -> will add second "commercial" license
* qApp macro changes [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285655 discussion].
  - Releasing
* documentation updates are still pending.
    - 5.13.1 release is being prepared
* with the release of 5.14 we have been fixing many details from uic's Python support.
    - 5.12.5 follows later this month
* designer's RUNPATH [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285712 needed to be patched], waiting for approval,
  - Documentation changes
* A modular way of packing wheels is being studied.
    - Qt for Python Logo updated
* Re-take the Python extensions for QtCreator project evaluation.
    - CSS updates -> (lots of suggestions/bug reports from the community)
  - PYSIDE-951 (primitive type support) merged and done
  - PYSIDE-795 (Numpy support progressing)
  - ported simpletreewidget from C++ to python
  - restructuring cmake setup with the aim to have a more modular build selection


==== 1. August 2019 ====
== 2019 ==
  - (Summer break)
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
  - PYSIDE-795 (numpy support is progressing)
  - PYSIDE-951 (primitive pointer types ready for review)
  - Fixed pyside-setup 5.14 branch building (addressing lots of deprecation changes)
 
==== 25. July 2019 ====
  - (Summer break)
  - continuing on PYSIDE-795: documentation,
    - supporting the iterable protocol (will become sub-task)
    - augmenting incomplete classes (QtPrintSupport)
    - checking and correcting function signatures according to PYSIDE-951
 
==== 18. July 2019 ====
  - (Summer break)
  - Some progress related to Bug fixing is being done.
  - bug fixing on signatures accessing "__doc__" on a module function.
  - continued on PYSIDE-795
 
==== 11. July 2019 ====
  - visiting EuroPython
  - discussed roadmap for 5.14 release (check out Pyside Jira project with FixVersion 5.14)
  - continued CI configuration setup for pyside-setup
  - continued on shared pointer bugs(PYSIDE-1024 & PYSIDE-1043)
  - assert triggering for certain types (PYSIDE-1037)
  - further changes for PYSIDE-951
  - numpy enhancements (PYSIDE-795) (documentation and tests improvements)
 
==== 04. July 2019 ====
  - Qt for Python 5.13.0 released
  - Experimented with cross compiling
    - not easily possible -> build system needs major work
  - New control system for Qt for Python (isolates Qt4Python CI configuration from coin)
    - more flexible way of working as not dependent on coin release
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951 PYSIDE-951] finish
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] work continues
  - fixed QFlags handling
  - had trouble merging pyside to dev branch
  - some discussions around smart pointer handling in Qt4Python
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-634 ready to be merged
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1010
 
==== 27. June 2019 ====
  - about to finish [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951 PYSIDE-951]
  - fixed "Fix qApp import of QCoreApplication"
  - cleanup formatting of all source code and modern C++11 features
  - final re-working of "Example: Move the SQL statements", improving the C++ code as well
 
==== 20. June 2019 ====
  - Release
    - Qt for Python 5.12.4 released today
    - Qt for Python 5.13.0 wheels done -> still need testing
  - Coin configurations to be separated from qt5.git (will become part of pyside-setup.git
  - SQL example was updated (to be more pythonic)
  - Shared pointer related fixes being done
  - reopened https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1033 (how to build shiboken) after reviewing the current situation
  - macOS build issue being addressed
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951
  - team got commit rights for pyinstaller project repository
  - TQtC is sponsoring PyCon DE
 
==== 12. June 2019 ====
  - Example polish, introduced QSaveFile, fixed tabbed browser [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1022 PYSIDE-1022]
  - Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1017 PYSIDE-1017], named parameters in added functions
  - Started to look at some issues with smart pointers, [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1024 PYSIDE-1024], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1016 PYSIDE-1016] related to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-454 PYSIDE-454]
  - Making progress in the embedded support story.
    - After trying the setup.py approach, there was a lot of modifications involve in our build process, so it was not considered a good option.
    - a CMake approach is currently being used, and shiboken generator and the python module are successfully cross-compiled, but still, there is work to do.
  - Final solution of qApp embedding [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-571 PYSIDE-571]. After a long Odyssey of breaking solutions, qApp macro works now as expected with embedding.
  - PyInstaller maintainer still did not reply as promised on 2019-06-04 phone call.
 
==== 6. June 2019 ====
  - Summer holidays affecting releasing? Any estimate when we would have:
    - Qt for Python 5.13.0 (Qt still on RC0)
    - Qt for Python 5.12.4 (in the next few weeks)
  - discussed options how to sign wheel content
  - cross compilation of Qt for Python (work in progress)
    -> investigating options on how to achieve that in an easy way
  - fixed build on CentOS
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1017
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1016
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1024
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 (NumPy)
  - discussed commit issues with pyinstaller maintainer
  - QtC will have presence on PyCon DE
 
==== 23. May 2019 ====
  - Qt 6 (e.g. Pyside 6.0?) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904
  - Pyinstaller issues being a bottle neck at the moment for the deployment story
  - Qt for Python 5.12.4 release
    - patches are accumulating
    - TODO: branching, changelog, testing
  - Qt for Python 5.13 release status
    - need cleanup in Jira of fix versions
    - Qt 5.13 blog post
    - start generating 5.13 release wheels for testing
  - Discussed Python 2 EOL on 1.1.2020
    - Current proposal is dropping Python 2 support in Qt for Python 6
    - Python 2 users can continue to use Qt for Python 5.15
 
==== 16. May 2019 ====
  - Team member attended PyCon US
  - Work on tutorials
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1003 PYSIDE-1003] Final fix checked in
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-735 PYSIDE-735] Make generate_pyi crash on real ImportErrors, only!
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1004 PYSIDE-1004] writable signatures implemented but needs to change
 
==== 9. May 2019 ====
  - Final fixes to uic to be able to generate Python [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-797 PYSIDE-797]
  - Refactorings in libpyside
  - Work on SQL book tutorial
  - Research into using Clang C++ API
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1003 PYSIDE-1003] Final fix is waiting for approval
  - Viewer tool for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] nearly ready for browsing code
 
==== 2. May 2019 ====
  - 5.12.3 released
  - Looking into OpenGL version functions [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955]
  - Improved shiboken2 progress message output
  - Sped up shiboken2 class generation significantly
  - Improved code generated for multiple inheritance
  - First look at 5.14 API
  - Fixed Problems with PyInstaller after removal of Coin glitches
  - Wrote viewer tool to finally support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
 
==== 25. April 2019 ====
- Preparation for Qt for Python 5.12.3 release.
  - Replaced QtXmlPatterns by libxml2/libxslt for documentation generation
  - Testing and final polishing of Python output mode of uic 5.14
  - New signatures related to PYSIDE-989
  - Looking into OpenGL version functions [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955]
  - Improving the usability of the "--reuse-build" option
  - fixing new PyInstaller problem with Python 2.7.16
 
==== 18. April 2019 ====
- Usage of QtXmlPattern in doc tool chain of Qt for Python
  - xml pattern deprecated in Qt 5.13
  - working on libxml2 replacement (has issues on platforms w/o libxml2 support)
  - in the long term, the qdoc generation process should really produce python docs too
  - updated coin to continue to include QtXmlPattern for Qt for Python builds
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-996 PYSIDE-996] fixed on SuSE but not yet RedHat
- working on docs to provide hints when working with pyinstaller
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955 ] in progress
- New attempt on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
- shiboken [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-995 PYSIDE-995] call operator support
- custom scene graph rendering node in Python (related to PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-989)
- improving primitive type conversion (by the various OpenGL related bugs like PYSIDE-989 or PYSIDE-955)
 
==== 11. April 2019 ====
- PyInstaller problems identified as COIN bugs [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-996 PYSIDE-996 ]
- continuing with [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795 ]
  - handling pointers which are arrays arrays (patch defunct after too many other changes)
  - identifying remaining bad spots that need improving
- Started work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955 ]
- Started diagnosis of [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-995 PYSIDE-995 ]
- Continued on work enabling extending namespaces across modules
 
==== 4. April 2019 ====
- working in Wiki page on how to port a C++ application to Qt for Python (over time should turn into tutorial)
- further discussion how to handle snippets
- more tutorials (especially for PYSIDE-901)
- Further work on cross compilation for ARMv7
- Various fixes for Shiboken to handle namespaces in Qt better
- Improve Shiboken documentation composition/layout
- Bugfixing related to Qt file handling
 
==== 28. March 2019 ====
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 released last on 22. March 2019
- started to write up documentation on how to deploy with pyinstaller
  - finding quite a few issues when using pyinstaller on Windows (and particular Python 2)
  - macOS & Linux less problematic
- worked on documentation issues (like missing links for easier browsing)
- investigated issues where shiboken didn't handle C++ namespaces across modules
- handle nullptr usage properly in docs
- more translation of C++ snippets to Python (is a never ending task as there are thousands of C++ snippets)
 
==== 21. March 2019 ====
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 release activities
  - some bugs and general CI issues kept delaying the generation of the final release wheels
  - most bugs were related to pyinstaller and other deployment tools
  - one last cxfreeze bug being integrated
  - next/subsequent set of wheels will be 5.12.2 release
- Lots of installer related discussions in the team
  - question is which installer/deployment tool to use/recommend
  - current decision is to provide guides/documentation for at least fbs and pyinstaller
- review of project's current release practices (in particular in the area of QA)
  - no outcome at this stage
- addressed issues in dev branch related to changes in Qt dev branch
- Qt for Python team joined Qt doc team to talk about ways how to improve Qt for Python docs
 
==== 14. March 2019 ====
- Fixed broken documentation formatting; added deprecation information
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74424 QTBUG-74424] 5.13 Release blocker affecting doc generation occurred
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932]/[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-942 PYSIDE-942]: The embedding patch is mostly
  working, but needs some refinement to be complete:
  - The .pyc generation contradicts the Limited API and must be changed to
    use source code.
  - The code isolation must be made explicit and complete, so that installers
    ''don't recognize'' that there is something.
    Right now this was done in the wrong direction.
  Not much code and time necessary, just fixing ''the right'' bits.
- PYSIDE-934 The Buffer protocol for Python 2 needed a special flag to be compatible.               
- Added more features for the Python project wizards on QtCreator https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/255686/
- Created a new tutorial for a workshop https://github.com/cmaureir/qtforpython_workshop
 
==== 7. March 2019 ====
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 release
  - waiting for final patch before release (PYSIDE-942/PYSIDE-932)
- Setting up test envs for Python 3.7 & 3.5 (so far testing was always done on Python 3.6) -> work in progress
- QML tutorial under review (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/254044/10)
- how to integrate deprecation infos from Qt to the Python side
- Python output to rcc [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-855 PYSIDE-855]
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-95 PYSIDE-95] fixed
- Experimented with MicroPython
- Found the reason for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-966 PYSIDE-966]: A memory leak was fixed by ctypes.
 
==== 28. February 2019 ====
- Discussion on adding more python testing environments to be certain 3.5+ versions are properly working.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-953 PYSIDE-953] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-934 PYSIDE-934] almost done
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-931 PYSIDE-931] almost done
- refcount bug fixes mathplotlib crashes:
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-928 PYSIDE-928]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-937 PYSIDE-937]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-943 PYSIDE-943]
- WIP: Embedding to solve signature problems dependency of support directory since 5.12.1 . Will solve 
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-942 PYSIDE-942]  missing support, PyInstaller  (was solved but involves PyInstaller change)
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932]  missing support, cx_freese
 
==== 21. February 2019 ====
- research on how to do ad hoc releases of Pyside 2 for bug fixes like last weeks meta data change (and otherwise no further source change)
- Qt 5.12.2 about to be released -> should have a Qt for Python 5.12.2 release
- discussed installer related crash bug following 5.12.1 release [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932] etc.
- tutorials works (based on recent Qt for Python youtube videos)
- prepared discussions with doc team meeting next week (on Python support)
- some more work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795]
- work to distinguish array types from pointer variables
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-946 PYSIDE-946] under development
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-934 PYSIDE-934] void* type handling
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-938 PYSIDE-938] under review
- Current Creator 4.9 beta released today added Python project templates
- PEP 518 (project format for Python projects) -> needs Qt Creator support
 
==== 14. February 2019 ====
- 5.12.1 wheels had meta data issues and were redone with fixed meta data
- discussed improving the integration of Python example code into Qt for Python docs
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-921 PYSIDE-921]
- improved signature matching for custom types
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] fixed and merged
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-922 PYSIDE-922] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-45 PYSIDE-45] fixed
- looking at crashes when importing pandas & numpy (the order of imports matters when working around it)
==== 7. February 2019 ====
- Fixed 5.13 deprecation warnings (which unearthed that we had a dependency on QString::isNull() vs isEmpty() in shiboken)
- Fixed a large number of shiboken code generation warnings (revealing some issues)
- Provided s solution for one issue mentioned at PYSIDE-725 (apparently Sharon Woods from US is involved in some consulting?)
- Will start formal release tag marking in Jira (matching Qt style)
- Data visualization tutorial fixes
- Talking about further integration of existing examples into general docs
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] further investigation - no conclusion yet
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-921 PYSIDE-921] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] investigated - fix seems at hand
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-924 PYSIDE-924] fixed issue where Q_PROPERTY flags were not properly passed on to Qt
- restructured cmake files adding a master cmake file (simplifies opening of project in IDEs)
  - Now it's possible to open the whole project (PySide2 + Shiboken2) on QtCreator using the global CMakeList.txt
- worked on issues related to the setup.py and how to execute it.
 
==== 31. January 2019 ====
- Preparing 5.12.1 release
  - Packages are looking good, likely to be released at same time as Qt 5.12.1 release
- Submitted class bindings of Qt RemoteObjects for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-862 PYSIDE-862]
- Added classes QWebEngineHistory, WebEngineHistoryItem with required fix [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-906 PYSIDE-906]
- Have calls to method annotated as deprecated issue a warning
- Fixed warnings, prepared Qt 5.13 bindings (based on current 5.13 API additions)
- Looked into [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
- Data visualization tutorial added
- working on ways of substitution of C++ specific terms in docs against Python equivalents (e.g. nullptr and bool)
 
==== 24. January 2019 ====
- Release branch for 5.12.1 exist
  - There was some issues in CI with 5.12 branch earlier this week and it was pretty much blocked. All issues should be solved now.
- Prepared class bindings of Qt RemoteObject for PYSIDE-862 for review
- Some creativity to keep integrations going due to COIN issues
- Investigation of PYSIDE-803 is ongoing. The issue needs deep analysis to isolate the problem.
 
==== 17. January 2019 ====
- Fixed PYSIDE-908, further investigation into PYSIDE-803 (free threading)
- QfP 5.12.1 release being prepared
- PYSIDE-797 (uic change ready for review)
- PYSIDE-862 (Qt RemoteObject module support)
- PYSIDE-634 being fixed
- started to look at true cross compilation (PYSIDE-802)
- Improving Qt Creator project template support (QTCREATORBUG-21824)
 
==== 10. January 2019 ====
- Scope for Qt for Python 5.13 release
  -> relevant tasks marked with Fixversion 5.13 in bugreports.qt.io
  -> feature freeze for Qt for Python 5.13 (April 2019)
- looked into case of corrupted meta data of wheel
- supporting named arguments for signals
- some minimal support in Qt Creator to create a Qt for Python project
- bug hunting in 5.12.0 release
- working on Pyside-797
- further analysis of PYSIDE-803, working on an implementation plan
 
==== 3. January 2019 ====
- Completed: Complete The Signature Introspection (PYSIDE-510)
- After the release there has been a couple of new reported bugs that we are working on:
  - There was some outdated documentation issue regarding Slots()
  - A couple of issues with multiple inheritance like: PYSIDE-868
  - and with QPlainTextEdit PYSIDE-886
- Restarted investigation of PYSIDE-803


== 2018 ==
== 2018 ==


* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]

Revision as of 14:48, 28 January 2020

2020

30. January 2020

  • ...
  • ...

23. January 2020

  • Fix for CI/macOS problem is in, but it requires some merges in Qt5. Until all required merges are done, we will use Qt5 5.14.1 with Qt For Python 5.14
  • Research on PYSIDE-803
  • Proposed an "until" attribute for typesystem files to make it possible to build Pyside 5.14 against Qt 5.12 PYSIDE-1195
  • Improved the view of compare app for PYSIDE-803
  • Analysis of PyQt5 and SIP implementation

16. January 2020

  • CI/macOS problems are being worked.
  • qApp fix waiting to be merged.
  • first attempts to tackle PYSIDE-803
  • Python 3.8 fix to old branches is required for distributions using 5.12 LTS like Conda.
  • Working on Q_ENUM support.
  • Viewer for PYSIDE-803 is ready to try. Please check out https://git.qt.io/playground/pyside-compare.git and give feedback.

9. January 2020

  • PYSIDE-803 needs to be tackled soon, it's critical, and we cannot carry that into Qt6.
  • Python 3.8.1 on Windows has some issues while building.
  • qApp macro changes discussion.
  • documentation updates are still pending.
  • with the release of 5.14 we have been fixing many details from uic's Python support.
  • designer's RUNPATH needed to be patched, waiting for approval,
  • A modular way of packing wheels is being studied.
  • Re-take the Python extensions for QtCreator project evaluation.

2019

2018