Re: [gentoo-dev] Up for grabs: dev-python/pyside2

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:06:06 -0400
Ionen Wolkens <ionen@g.o> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:30:20AM +0000, waebbl-gentoo@××××××.net wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:11:08 +0100
> > Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > > Up for grabs because of inactivity.
> > >
> > > dev-python/pyside2 has several open bugs and a version bump pending.
> > >
> > > Needs some real love to tidy it up.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > sam
> >
> > Wouldn't it be applicable to put these packages under the umbrella of
> > the Gentoo Qt project?
>
> It still need someone to maintain it either way, qt@ is rather small
> and Qt6 is likely to use up people's time already. Being m-n at least
> make its current state clear (up to qt@ though).
>

I can think of co-maintaining the packages, but it exceeds my resources
to being primary maintainer.

> > They're developed, published and hosted by the The Qt Company (in
> > contrast for example to PyQt5 or QtPy) and are only python
> > bindings for the Qt framework, although they're currently distributed
> > in a separate tarball and not with the Qt tarball.
>
> On a side-note I'll be adding PyQt6 to the tree once I can[1], but I
> don't use pyside for anything and probably won't be looking at pyside6.
>

I'm slowly working towards shiboken6 / pyside6. Pyside is needed for
the Qt6 move of FreeCAD, at it's current state at least.
There are discussion on completely moving to pybind11 instead of
pyside, but that's not yet decided. So I will probably need pyside6 for
the sake of FreeCAD.


> [1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26504