My vote would be for QT5 and trying to write for python 2 AND 3 compatibility of the code. Of course I'm not the one writing it though.
My personal opinion is that LinuxCNC builds for wheezy need to be relegated to bug fixes and such and all new features 'officially' supported on only newer OS releases. Support for wheezy from the Debian project ends in a year, and stretch has now gone into feature freeze. The five year old hardware driver set in wheezy exhibits less than desirable results on many newer motherboards and graphics cards in my experience and I often end up pulling things from backports. I have always preferred QT over GTK... It would be wonderful to have this! On 04/18/2017 03:55 AM, Chris Morley wrote: > I've been working on a branch that would supply linuxcnc with a python QT > based vcp program. > > This is capable of GLADEvcp type panels and operator screens including python > handler files. > > Qt seems to be the future of GUIs > > > The questions I am wonder on are: > > > python 2 or 3 ? > > > PYQT4 or 5 ? > > > Currently it's built with python 2 and PYQT4. > > > My personal opinion is that I see little reason to use python 3 yet - it > seems many libraries are slow to switch. > > > QT5 is not available in wheezy but is available in Mint (a fairly common used > distribution) > > Looks like debian Jessie has PYQT5 in both styles of python. > > > So to use QT5 we would not be able to use QTvcp in wheezy and i would need > some make file help > > to juggle when to build and not. > > > I haven't read any significant differences between qt4/5 I just would like > to future proof the work. > > it's really disappointing the debacle of GTK2 and 3. > > > Opinions other comments? > > > Chris M > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >
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