I guess my confusion comes from reading this paragraphs, but it’s all clear now.
This essentially makes all PySide/PyQt scripts written for Maya version <= 2016 unusable in Maya 2017. To help fix this, and maintain backwards compatibility to previous versions of Maya, Marcus Ottosson and I created an open source project called Qt.py… Ah, I agree. I now see I should have chosen my words more carefully. :) On the defaults I guess it depends on your goal/scope, what you describe makes perfect sense for distribution of new software that have to run within different environments (i.e. pyblish), but if you have an existing large codebase in your studio maybe it’s more convenient to patch the new qtgui including the widgets at runtime (or account for this reality in some way). Yes. I think there could be different approaches when talking about old code vs new code. Personally, I’ve opted for Qt.py for the old code too, to keep things consistent here. It’s just one choice of many. For the record, we have a similar python package extending and giving access to qt bindings at work and the migration wasn’t a big deal, there’s always some small percentage of ‘TD code’ around not following standards (therefore broken), but having control over the way tools/frameworks have access to the bindings is very important and I totally recommend it. Yes, agreed. I was first shocked when I learned about PySide/PyQt4 being left out of applications moving onto Qt5… oh my god, all that code! But when I learned what it really meant to tweak your code for PySide2 or PyQt5, I was revealed it wasn’t that big of a change. At least for us it wasn’t since it mostly came down to widgets and styling. But then a new shock set in when I heard PySide2 will not be developed for Python 2… and so it goes on… But so now I’m happy writing code using our Qt.py shim, especially in those cases where I know the script/app will run in many different Python environments. // Fredrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAD%3DwhWNc41mHsOnS9nnPmqtW5k7oCZc_iBg33b1-Rzb4jEnTqQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
