Re: [SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

2013-12-31 Thread Jens Persson
Yes it does. But long story short, Python WILL BE supported in Sailfish one way or the other, that much I can promise. Sailfish/Mer basically is "Fedora mobile" which means that just about anything that works on Fedora will work on Sailfish too. Jolla might not support Python but there will be thir

Re: [SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

2013-12-26 Thread Martin Kolman
26.12.2013 23:34, Mikael Hermansson: Its not my opinion it's a fact why should a new platform depend on deprecated libs or language versions when we know it very soon will disappear even from upstream projects? And dists? Its only leads to maintanance hell. And when it disappear developers

Re: [SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

2013-12-26 Thread Jens Persson
As I said I built PyQt with Python2 because it's the default in Sailfish today. If Sailfish-1.0 is about to switch to Python3 then I will also do that, simple as that. But today Python2 is the default and that's why I built PyQt with 2 and not 3. Python 2 and 3 can happily live side by side but som

Re: [SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

2013-12-26 Thread Mikael Hermansson
Its not my opinion it's a fact why should a new platform depend on deprecated libs or language versions when we know it very soon will disappear even from upstream projects? And dists? Its only leads to maintanance hell. And when it disappear developers and endusers gets angry because apps no

Re: [SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

2013-12-26 Thread Jens Persson
Well, that's your opinion. But today it's Python2 that is default in Sailfish and not three and that's why I built PyQt with two. Afaik all Python modules currently available as default (dev mode enabled) are built with Python2. Greets Jens On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Mikael Hermansson wro

[SailfishDevel] [SPAM] Re: Does Sailfish support PyQt5?

2013-12-26 Thread Mikael Hermansson
AFAIK python is NOT installed from scratch in sf. also if python will be supported it will be python3 as thomas already has said. Thats the way to go. Python 2 should be seen as deprecated on new platforms IMHO... Regards Mikael Thu Dec 26 2013 19:00:35 GMT+0100 (CET) skrev Jens Persson: >Py