and when do you plan to support python 2.6.x? On 7/17/10, Phil Thompson <p...@riverbankcomputing.com> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:09:04 +0200, Antonio Valentino > <antonio.valent...@tiscali.it> wrote: >> Hi Phil, >> >> Il giorno Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:02:57 +0100 >> Phil Thompson <p...@riverbankcomputing.com> ha scritto: >> >>> dip v0.1 has been released. This is the first release of dip, an >>> application development framework for PyQt and (for the moment at >>> least) Python v3. >>> >>> The user documentation, including tutorials and a full API reference >>> is available at >>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/dip/index.html >>> >>> dip is suitable for developing simple utilities and large scale, >>> complex applications. It includes the following features... >> >> [...] >> >> first of all congratulations for the great job. >> >> I have still not finished to read the docs but it seems to me that many >> of the features provided by dip are also present in the enthought >> framework (Traits, Envisage, etc.). > > Agreed. I've worked with Enthought for several years and did the original > port to PyQt amongst other things. There is a lot of good stuff in it. > >> I would like to ask you why you decided to develop a new framework and >> which are advantages/drawbacks of using dip instead of enthought. > > There were many reasons to create a new framework, one being the need for > Python v3 support and the desire to use Python v3 features. > > Another significant reason was the way that the Enthought stuff implements > toolkit independence, ie. the compromises it makes in order to support wx > and PyQt. As a PyQt programmer you often end up being frustrated that you > can't get your GUIs to do what you want because TraitsUi is getting in the > way. > > In dip, QWidgets are first class objects. When you create a GUI you get a > QWidget, not something that wraps a QWidget in an API that is designed to > support wx. Another example (which you'll understand if you are familiar > with Traits) is that dip allows you to do... > > class MyClass(QObject, Model): > ... > > ...where Model is the dip equivalent of HasTraits. > > Of course the Enthought stuff is very mature and has lots of stuff that > dip doesn't have - for example it is very good for engineering applications > that need 2D and 3D visualisation. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt >
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