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

[Kevin Walzer]

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.
>
> 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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