On Oct 20, 6:45 pm, rm <rmcorresp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 20, 6:14 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2009-10-20 16:48 PM, rm wrote: > > > > Have you guys heard about PySide: > > > >http://www.pyside.org/ > > > > It is basically the same as PyQt (Qt bindings for Python), but > > > licensed with the LGPL instead of GPL. The FAQ explains a bit more > > > history. Looks like the end for PyQt if you ask me. > > > Welcome to two months ago. :-) > > > PySide still needs a fair chunk of work to go before it could really be > > claimed > > that it is a wholesale replacement for PyQt, but it looks like it will be a > > compelling alternative. > > I did a search for PySide here and only saw the announcement. I was > surprised that no discussion ensued, did I miss it. So, I assumed > that not a lot of people knew about it and wanted to help spread the > word and hear some opinions. But, what you say is probably right on > the mark. Thanks.
One thing PySide has going against it is the shared library binaries are a lot larger than PyQT4's, because of its use of boost::python. Not a good thing for something that exists so that it can be put on a mobile device. Still, I see PySide being the eventual end of my GUI toolkit journeys. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list