On Sonntag, 13. September 2020 12:13:48 CEST Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On 2020 setula d. 12id 23:02:27 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Samstag, 12. September 2020 16:13:29 CEST Cristián Maureira-Fredes > > wrote: > > > - A similar project on this topic is PythonQt [3] > > > > > > [3] https://mevislab.github.io/pythonqt/Examples.html > > > > I have worked many years with the maintainer of PythonQt (Florian Link, > > awesome developer and person) and have made extensive use of PythonQt for > > scripting MeVisLab (a Qt-based application framework for medical imaging > > applications). > > That's interesting: PythonQt was also used by Calamares (Calamares also uses > Boost::Python, so offering two ways to embed Python into the C++ > application). PythonQt support is deprecated and will be removed, for two > reasons: > > 1 - nobody was actually using the Qt / UI parts of it to do UI scripting in > Calamares, so the extra API and dependency was not useful, and > 2 - PythonQt is packaged inconsistently and/or weirdly by Linux distro's, > which makes it hard to depend upon. > > That might be a chicken / egg situation though: if it's not packaged, people > won't use it either. I see that Calamares still refers to a SourceForge > home for it -- that's an indication of how old and unmaintained that part > of the Calamares code is. However, after chasing a few redirects, I end up > on GitHub, with no tags, no releases and no indication of anything newer > than Qt 5.12 in that repo. (And it uses QtScript, it seems, although an > own-copy) > > Perhaps that project needs some extra help with documentation and > presentation?
I think help would be appreciated. Regards, Ingo
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