I've added some comments and tested against PyQt4 4.7.3 -- I don't have 
PySide installed, so I'll just assume it works there, too.

Cheers,
Mike

On 05/05/2011 09:36 PM, Gerald Storer wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if I could get a comment on this.  Its been 4 weeks
> since I submitted the original version and it has been more or less
> production ready since Monday.
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/80
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald.
>
> On 11/04/2011 4:49 PM, Gerald Storer wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>> I've submitted a pull request with backend changes that (should) let
>> all currently supported versions of PyQt work along side PySide.  I've
>> tested with PyQt 4.8.3 and PySide 1.0.0.
>>
>> I haven't bothered chasing down old versions of PyQt as they seem
>> elusive.
>>
>> Gerald.
>>
>> On 29/03/2011 3:25 AM, butt...@gmail.com wrote:
>>      
>>> Looking forward, supporting the Python 3 compatible PyQt API is
>>> likely the way to go.
>>>
>>> Le , Gerald Storer<g...@mrxtech.com.au>  a écrit :
>>>        
>>>> On 28/03/2011 1:10 AM, Peter Butterworth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be possible to use a single backend compatible with both
>>>>
>>>> PyQt and Pyside ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The current Qt mpl backend uses the old PyQt slots/signals API
>>>>          
>>> which PySide doesn't really support (there are some macros but they
>>> don't work 100% the same).  From a quick glance at the IPython
>>> implementation it looks like they are using the new API which means
>>> older versions (<4.5) of PyQt won't be supported. This might be ok, I
>>> don't know.
>>>        
>>>> If it isn't then, there will need to be some try...excepts around
>>>>          
>>> the place or separate back ends.  If you ignore the PySide bugs I had
>>> to work around I've only changed ~4 lines in the main backend.
>>>        
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pierre's formlayout is also using an obsolete method that isn't
>>>>          
>>> present in PySide.  I've opted to emulate it, but it would be best to
>>> change the code to use the alternative method available in both PyQt
>>> and PySide.  formlayout also uses the old QString implementation of
>>> PyQt, PySide only supports the new implementation where QString is
>>> transparently convert to/from str/unicode.  Setting QString = unicode
>>> seems to work though.
>>>        
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gerald.
>>>>
>>>>          
>
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