How do people here feel about the current state of PyQt/PyKDE in relation to KDE (the project)? Is it a real problem for people that PyQt/PyKDE isn't distributed as part of KDE? or would it be enough if the distros also came with PyQt/PyKDE as 'standard'?
Ive found it very hard on my development that pyKDE lags behind kde releases. Ive had to resort to porting my current development over to gtk (while maintaining the kde version) just so i can always develop for it regardless of what desktop version im using. It doesnt help that the development of pyKDE is essentially a closed one man effort, and it would be much simpler if the bindings became part of the kde devlopment process. It would also help guarantee much simpler deployment of applications as it would be included everywhere kde is. Im sure it would become easier to help generate documentation from a shared base for all bindings too, which would be a big plus.
The Gnome project is currently starting to do this with alot of their bindings, especially as python/perl-gtk are becoming quite heavily used, and java-gnome is looking to very good once we get gcj-3.4 out with the rapidly improving gnu-classpath.
With projects like mono improving rapidly, it would be a real plus to have an easy administration, high level language platform to develop with. Python already looks like it potentially may lose a lot of mindshare to mono/gtk# which would be a real shame as i think the python language has a lot more to offer than c#/.net can, and ive developed against a platform which has been powerful as kde before, including gtk, swing/swt, motif and ncurses.
KDE really is the best development platform i have ever used and i would really like to see much better support from the core for pyKDE.
Tom
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