[PyQt] ANN: dip v0.3 Released

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Monday 13 June 2011, 10:12:03 Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:45 +0200, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil at gmx.net>
>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >> It also includes the ability to bind GUIs created using traditional
> >> means (ie. standard PyQt calls or Qt Designer) to models so that
> >> those models are automatically updated by the GUI and vice versa.
> >
> > Would dip be suitable (i.e. make it easier than "naked" PyQt) to put a
> > GUI onto a bunch of SQlAlchemy objects?
>
> Having thought about this a bit more...
>
> No, but it's an interesting idea and may not be too difficult to do. I'll
> think about it a bit more...

As an aside, SQLAlchemy is the most advanced and therefore popular SQL ORM 
in the python world today. It would raise the "out of box" value of dip 
greatly.

I could imagine, that there's a need for a SQLAlchemy PyQt integration 
module (QSql replacement) as a glue layer in between.

Lots of hand waving, I know.

Pete