On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:59:44 +0100, Detlev Offenbach <det...@die-offenbachs.de> wrote: > Hello Phil, > > thanks for the answers. Work is in progress to make eric5 and all it's > plug-ins compatible with > Python2. Once that is accomplished, support for eric4 would be dropped > starting with the next > stable eric5 release (whenever that will be after Py2 compatibility is > reached). One future > step in eric development could be to port it to PyQt5. Hence my interest > in your plans. > Meanwhile I got a few more questions. > > 1) Will PyQt5 and PyQt4 be API compaitble (i.e. exchangable) as long as > only stuff that is > covered by PyQt4 is used?
Not necessarily. If there is a better (but incompatible) way of doing something I'll change it for PyQt5. > 2) Will PyQt4 support Qt5 after the release of PyQt5 or will that be > dropped? It will continue to support Qt5 - but won't support any new features of Qt5. > 3) What could be the benefit switch eric5 over to PyQt5? Only if there are new features introduced in Qt5 that you want to use. I think PyQt4 on Qt5 will be much more important than PyQt5 for some time. > Btw, did you realize, that it is now a bit over ten years you handed over > the 'broken' eric > debugger to me and pulled me into the business? It was on 24.11.2002, when > the first alpha > release of eric3, the first eric IDE, was announced. Congratulations! These things can get a bit out of hand can't they... Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt