Re: Plans for PyQt6?

There are any plans to add Python stubs files in PyQt5 or PyQt6?

Grzegorz Bokota


wt., 28 kwi 2020 o 18:40 Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> napisał(a):

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:55:20PM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > On 28/04/2020 16:18, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > one thing I would like to ask for already is some kind of 'porting
> tool' to
> > > make the job of porting PyQt5 applications to PyQt6 a bit easier (like
> in
> > > former times the 2to3 tool for Python). Somewhere I read, that Qt
> might be
> > > planning to provide such a tool. If it is usable for PyQt5 and/or
> PySide2
> > > is unknown.
> > >
> > > Why am I asking for this? The eric-ide code base is quite large and it
> > > would be a task of months, if I had to scan it manually. I would have
> to
> > > find out about all the removed and changed API first.
> > >
> > > Detlev
> >
> > Useful yes, but not a high priority at first. I wouldn't expect major
> > projects to consider migrating to PyQt6 for many months.
>
> Given that the support for (non-commercial) Qt 5 will end the moment Qt 6
> is
> released[1], maybe more projects will want to switch quickly.
>
> Then again, there are still projects using Qt 4 which was dropped in
> December 2015 (but supported in parallel to Qt 5 for three years)[2].
>
> [1] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
> [2]
> https://www.qt.io/blog/2014/11/27/qt-4-8-x-support-to-be-extended-for-another-year
>
> Florian
>
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