PySide - Python for Qt

Status update: Shiboken QtCore done, QtGui almost there

mairas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:45:04 +0000

I’ve been making PySide status updates on the mailing list but have managed to somewhat neglect the website. Here are links to a couple of previous recent status updates:

And here’s about last sprint’s results and the immediate future plans:

Last sprint’s main goal was to finish Shiboken QtCore and QtGui module bindings. QtCore got done just fine but work on QtGui unearthed some bugs and minor missing features in the Shiboken generator itself and this delayed QtGui completion to the current sprint. Some related work was also done such as fixing the Shiboken PySide compilation issues with Python 2.5.

As was discussed on the list already, Carlos Gonçalves has contributed the Shiboken QtNetwork implementation! Also, Didier “OdyX” Raboud got boost-PySide to Debian unstable and has already begun working on the Shiboken packages. Kudos for them!

This sprint, lasting from today (Feb 11) until Feb 24, the core dev team’s main goal still is to get QtGui implementation done. Most of it is already finished so this shouldn’t be a biggie, despite most of the core dev team getting wasted, robbed, maimed, and killed during the Brazilian Carnaval early next week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Carnival#Pernambuco_style

Some further verification will be done on QtNetwork and if there’s time left, we’ll start working on QtXml.

That’s about it.

Matti Airas

Shiboken Threading Support Done

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:53:54 +0000

Shiboken now has proper threading support putting QtCore in an “almost done” state.

Read the mailing list announcement for more details.

Signals and Slots with Shiboken

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:55:02 +0000

The support for Qt’s signal/slot system in the Shiboken fork of PySide has been completed! Happiness abound!

Read the mailing list announcement for more details.

PySide v0.2.3 – ‘Candy Mountain’ release

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:31:33 +0000

New Features:

– Support for Qt 4.6 release;
– Support for QtMultimedia;
– Support for Animation Framework;
– Support for State Machine Framework;
– New test-cases including QtMaemo5.

We hope you enjoy this new release! Feel free to contribute with comments,
bug reports and suggestions.

Shiboken: Improved Support for Virtual Method Modification and Updated Documentation

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:53:23 +0000

As work on Shiboken, the CPython binding generator, goes on, updated documentation put online. After some work on improving support for virtual methods modifications, a new Type System variable was created and two others improved. This is intended to ease the work of binding developers writing custom code. Look for %PYTHON_ARGUMENTS and %PYARG_# on the Type System Variables documentation.

PySide 0.2.2 – “roshambo”

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:04 +0000

This is a brand new release of PySide including dozens of bug fixes. The main feature in this release is the full support for Qt 4.6 , including QtMultimedia.

Another great news is support for Mac OS X. The first working package have already been released and you can download it from PySide “Download” section, or for Ubuntu users can use PySide ppa.

New Shiboken Documentation

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:42:03 +0000

The Shiboken generator documentation was added to the Binding Generator section of PySide website. It contains information on how Shiboken deals with code injections, the Python sequence protocol and the meaning of type system variables.

Shiboken generated QtCore

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:34:20 +0000

News from the PySide/Shiboken front: after a lot of improvements on the generator we have the QtCore module exporting all the classes to Python. Notice that I said “importing” not working. Although many of the basic QtCore unit tests from the official PySide are passing, the ones dealing with ownership issues, signals/slots, and stuff relying on specific custom code.

More details on the mailing list announcement.

PySide 0.2.1 – “Luiza”

lauromoura — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:59:26 +0000

After a long hiatus, it’s time for a new bugfix release. This one named after the newborn daughter of our friend Birunko.

Download page updated with new tarball link

Shiboken Updates

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:58:20 +0000

In the last couple weeks the PySide team worked on the generation of QtCore module using the Shiboken alternative generator front-end for Python bindings. The main goal was to compile and import the module so that we could check the binary figures, and we saw that they’re pretty good! And in this case “pretty good” means one third of the Boost.Python bindings size.
Keep in mind that Shiboken support for Qt is early work, nevertheless the good results achieved so far points to a solution of the PySide size problem, as well as the addition of a different option to the binding writer toolset.
The Shiboken generator still haven’t had a proper release, and many changes are in progress at the moment, but soon a tarball will be released and announced here.