[Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

[Paul Wiseman]

On 9 July 2013 15:41, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:

> On 7/9/13 10:34 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote:
>
>> Nope, they had a release today in fact (v1.2.0) so it's very much still
>> active.
>>
>
> But it supports Qt 4.8. Digia has just released Qt 5.1. Qt5 has some huge
> differences from 4.x, among them it's moving heavily into using QtQuick (a
> declarative markup spec) to draw UI's rather than native widgets.
>
>
The bindings are always going to be a bit behind Qt, it's on their roadmap (
http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide_Roadmap)


>
>> I've only just started looking into it so I'm not sure on the full story
>> - so this is possibly wrong or inaccurate but I believe Nokia sold Qt to
>> Digia, then they had licencing issues trying to use pyQt and couldn't
>> come to an agreement with riverbank computing, so Nokia made their own
>> bindings (PySide) and open sourced them. So there's now two sets of
>> python bindings and from what I can tell PySide seems to release updates
>> for new features of Qt before pyQt as well. I think PySide is purely a
>> community project now, I don't think Nokia has much to do with it (again
>> I could be wrong!) but still seems active.
>>
>
> Phil Thompson earns his living dual-licensing PyQt (commercial and GPL),
> just as TrollTech did. Moving to LGPL would probably hurt his revenue.
>
>
> --Kevin
>
>
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