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Good news for you about the Python part of this: there is official interest from The Qt Company around PySide. See 48:39 in Lars Knoll's "Project status" keynot

Good news for you about the Python part of this: there is official interest from The Qt Company around PySide. See 48:39 in Lars Knoll's "Project status" keynote at QtCon2016: http://mirror.its.dal.ca/kde-applicationdata/akademy/2016/354_qt_project_status.mp4 http://mirror.its.dal.ca/kde-applicationdata/akademy/2016/35... EDIT: Also, for anyone interested in Qt, the whole talk is worthwhile to get an idea of where Qt is going.

radix07 10y ago
It would be awesome to have a clean way to develop on Android with Python. Technically it is possible and has been done with Necessitas, but would be awesome if they can get it streamlined into their mobile Qt stuff.
azeirah 10y ago
I'm really hoping they will pick up PySide again. The last update was in 2015 - 1.2.4 (2015-10-14)
- radix07 10y ago
  Looks like PySide2 is PySide for Qt5. Seems they are putting some effort back into development. https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2 https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2
- pfranz 10y ago
  I think the VFX industry is rallying that cause. Years ago Autodesk ported many of their 3d packages home-grown UIs to Qt (Maya and Max) I'm sure part of the goal was to reduce their maintenance burden and assist with cross-platform support. They also have Python runtimes that allow GUIs with Qt. They moved from PyQt to PySide a few years ago, too. In addition to Autodesk, The Foundry's Nuke and SideFX's Houdini are in the same camp. I've heard they're (specifically Autodesk is) funding the development and the vendors are all working together and have deadlines in place for their own annual releases. Everyone is using Python 2.7 and have stuck with Qt 4 because Qt 5 hasn't really offered any compelling features for them. I believe the dropping of support for Qt 4 spurred them to push for Qt 5, hence PySide support for it. There are early talks about Python 3, but that's a few years off.
sevensor 10y ago
While I think bringing PySide back would be great, I use PyQt from day to day, and it works really well. Commercial PyQt licenses are reasonably priced, and it's dual-licensed GPL if you've got an open-source project or you just want to try something out.
- pfranz 10y ago
  That might have changed in 10 years (and the economics might differ for a small place), but when the place I was working was looking at switching from Perl/Tk for internal tools, they went with Python wxWidgets over PyQt4 because of licensing cost even though Qt would have been a better fit. They eventually went with PySide when that got released.

radix07 10y ago

It would be awesome to have a clean way to develop on Android with Python. Technically it is possible and has been done with Necessitas, but would be awesome if they can get it streamlined into their mobile Qt stuff.

azeirah 10y ago

I'm really hoping they will pick up PySide again. The last update was in 2015 - 1.2.4 (2015-10-14)

radix07 10y ago
Looks like PySide2 is PySide for Qt5. Seems they are putting some effort back into development. https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2 https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2
pfranz 10y ago
I think the VFX industry is rallying that cause. Years ago Autodesk ported many of their 3d packages home-grown UIs to Qt (Maya and Max) I'm sure part of the goal was to reduce their maintenance burden and assist with cross-platform support. They also have Python runtimes that allow GUIs with Qt. They moved from PyQt to PySide a few years ago, too. In addition to Autodesk, The Foundry's Nuke and SideFX's Houdini are in the same camp. I've heard they're (specifically Autodesk is) funding the development and the vendors are all working together and have deadlines in place for their own annual releases. Everyone is using Python 2.7 and have stuck with Qt 4 because Qt 5 hasn't really offered any compelling features for them. I believe the dropping of support for Qt 4 spurred them to push for Qt 5, hence PySide support for it. There are early talks about Python 3, but that's a few years off.

sevensor 10y ago

While I think bringing PySide back would be great, I use PyQt from day to day, and it works really well. Commercial PyQt licenses are reasonably priced, and it's dual-licensed GPL if you've got an open-source project or you just want to try something out.

pfranz 10y ago
That might have changed in 10 years (and the economics might differ for a small place), but when the place I was working was looking at switching from Perl/Tk for internal tools, they went with Python wxWidgets over PyQt4 because of licensing cost even though Qt would have been a better fit. They eventually went with PySide when that got released.