[PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert

[Peter Kropf]

I believe that we can post patches for any changes that we may need to make
to PyQt and SIP. So far, there haven't been any.

We're not using SIP to create bindings for the existing program APIs. The
APIs are all in C and we've crafted some fairly shallow Python bindings to
allow importing the libraries. So far that seems to work fine. We'll see how
that holds up as we continue with our development efforts.

- Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Bublitz [mailto:jbublitz at nwinternet.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:39 PM
To: Peter Kropf
Cc: pykde at mats.gmd.de
Subject: RE: [PyKDE] Kudos and Questions from a New Convert


On 20-Nov-02 Peter Kropf wrote:
> Actually, I'm in both the Windows and Unix worlds. We're using Python, 
> PyQt and Qt for our next generation GUI development work. It'll be 
> deployed on lot's o' different types of systems: Window 2K / XP on 
> i686 and ia64, Linux RedHat on i686, ia64 and s390, Solaris, AIX, 
> HP-UX, OSF/1, Irix and possible others. This is one of the wonders of 
> Python and Qt - we have a single development environment and source 
> tree that runs everywhere we need it. The creation of the environment 
> and the deployment of the product are the places where we have to be 
> concerned about platform specifics. From my point of view, we're just 
> not in a position where we can make a requirement of the customer to
> build the final product. They want to receive a ready-to-run
> program that has minimum setup and configuration requirements.
 
> On the other hand, I'd love to see Python and Qt available everywhere 
> on operating systems from the os vendors. That would certainly help 
> with our deployment efforts ;-)

Are you in a position where you company will let you contribute patches or
other knowledge/information? If so, I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated
(if not, it's understandable).

Are you developing sip bindings for your program logic as well? Do you see a
need for tools/docs in that area?


Jim
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