On Wednesday 17 March 2004 22:55, Simon Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:21 pm, Russell Valentine wrote: > > In my eyes I think it would be awsome to have PyQt/PyKDE part of KDE. > > I've upgraded to KDE 3.2 and all my PyKDE apps don't work. > > That is what I'm getting at. It is not acceptable that a new stable version > of KDE ships and all of your python apps break. I've seen too many times > people dumping python and porting to C++ mainly because of availability and > the fact that PyQt/PyKDE doesn't come installed with peoples KDE/distro. > This problem is putting a limit on adoption of Python with KDE. That's a > real pity. > > > Probably Jim > > Bublitz could use some help. I'm still sort of new to Python and I > > havn't looked into creating bindings with SIP so I would have a lot of > > learning to do. > > yes, Jim and Phil both do a great job, but they only have so much > time/energy. With this thread I want to open up the discussion about how we > can fix this problem. > > Now, KDE 3 is meant to be compatible through all of the 3.x releases. So I > imagine that it is possible for someone other than Phil and Jim to fix the > bindings when a new 3.x version of KDE comes out, and make sure that stable > releases of KDE also have a working PyQt/PyKDE available. It would be nice > to have matching releases of PyQt/PyKDE that are syncronised with KDE so > that the distros can package and release at the same time as KDE. Because > right now it is not very clear what matches what.
A lot of this is my fault - but I think it's now in the past. I'm committed to maintaining (and documenting) the SIP 4 interface - I don't expect significant changes until Qt 4 comes along. Now that I've stopped presenting Jim with a moving target, once he's caught up things should be fairly stable - bug fix mode only. It also means that the job of managing a more direct relationship with the KDE project should be simpler than it might appear at the moment. Phil _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde