I work in Visual Effects and there are many different applications using Qt these days with PySide bundled. This year the VES (Visual Effects Society) has started a push for companies to start following their platform guidelines for which versions of libraries should be supported within a given year. For example in 2015, Qt 4.8.x and PySide 1.2.x are still the versions they are targeting. If in 2016 Qt 5.x.x is selected then I would imagine the various software companies will want to have a PySide version that supports it.
More information about the VES platform can be found here: http://www.vfxplatform.com/ A few companies using Qt in Visual Effects software are Autodesk <http://www.autodesk.com/>, The Foundry <http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/> and Side Fx <http://www.sidefx.com/>. It would be great if they could lend some development support to help continue to push PySide forward. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Todd Rme <[email protected]> wrote: > Taking a bit of a step back, what is currently holding Qt 5.x back > from allowing completely dynamic bindings? Has anyone talked to the > Qt devs to see if these pieces could be implemented? > > If it would be possible to avoid the binding generation step and just > go straight to dynamic bindings, that would reduce the work needed to > maintain PySide significantly, and would help all of the other > bindings communities in the process. > > This might be something to look into before investing too much time or > effort in creating new static bindings. > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Steve Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think we need to have two different conversations that are related. > > > > 1. What needs to be changed in PySide and shiboken to support Qt5? > > 2. What are the options for long term support? > > > > I agree that the prospect of having corporate backing for the project > would > > be nice but unstable and probably unlikely so if we want it we need to do > > it. I use PySide constantly in a professional environment and although I > > cannot get my company to allow me to officially work to develop PySide, > it > > is in my professional interest to keep it alive. There have been a > number of > > pings to the list since Qt5 came out about migrating PySide that usually > > disappear and the impending obsolescence of Qt4 really pushes this to be > > serious. > > > > - Steve > > > > On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:04 PM, William Ferreira <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > John Ehresman, I was analyzing the commits the time and saw that you did > > much. > > > > I did a little post here just wondering what we can do to help this > process. > > > > If you can guide us believe that many would like to help. > > > > 2014-12-10 14:56 GMT-02:00 John Ehresman <[email protected]>: > >> > >> On 12/10/14, 11:38 AM, Florian Bruhin wrote: > >> > * Stany MARCEL <[email protected]> [2014-12-10 17:31:44 +0100]: > >> >> Hello > >> >> > >> >> Maybe a crowd funding to hire a full time developer should be a good > >> >> idea. > >> >> VLC association have done a kickstarter to fund the dev of VLC > windows > >> >> 8 > >> >> support. > >> > > >> > I'd be in! > >> > > >> >> Is pyside currently only community driven or is there any association > >> >> or > >> >> company behind, that could organize that. > >> > > >> > According to the Wikipedia page it was released by Nokia, so probably > >> > Digia / The Qt Company would be the one to contact nowadays. > >> > >> PySide is in the Qt repository but its development is substantially > >> community driven at this point. I am the somewhat reluctant maintainer > >> that hasn't been able to find much time to work on PySide recently. > >> > >> I don't think the VLC kickstarter is a good model for funding PySide > >> development because VLC is a consumer application with many times the > >> number of users as direct users of PySide (the developers using PySide, > >> not the users of applications built with it). > >> > >> John > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PySide mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside > > > > > > > > > > -- > > William Ferreira > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PySide mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside > > > _______________________________________________ > PySide mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside > -- Tony
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