Have you considered the licensing implications? PyQt is GPL, and actually *depending* on it (instead of using it as one of two possible options) would require Spyder itself to be released as GPL, wouldn't it?
2015-12-29 1:55 GMT-02:00 Carlos Córdoba <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Since today, we officially stopped to support PySide in the Spyder master > branch (i.e. in the future Spyder 3.0, Spyder 2.3 still works fine with it > though). This means that: > > 1. If PySide is found in your system, and PyQt5 nor PyQt4 are installed, > Spyder will try to use it. But at the moment, our master branch has several > crashes with PySide that we don't plan to solve (at least not me, other > core developers have shown interest in doing that but nothing has happened > so far :-). > 2. We're not going to solve more bugs related to PySide in the future > (again, at least not me :-) > 3. Support for it will have to come from the community. > > The reasons for taking this decision are explained in the link referenced > by Anatoly, in case someone wants to know them. Nobody is getting paid to > support only PyQt (4 or 5). It was just a pragmatic decision based on the > amount of time the development team has to support several Python Qt > bindings. Given that we're now supporting PyQt5 (and that PyQt5 is going to > be our default choice for Spyder 3.0), we don't have time to support both > PyQt4 and PySide. And because of the uncertainty of PySide's future, we > decided to not support it anymore. > > > Cheers, > Carlos > > El 28/12/15 a las 18:04, anatoly techtonik escribió: > > https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/2886 > > Hey guys, where is the discussion about that? > I am just curios - does anybody is getting paid > to make Spyder work only with PyQt4? > > Yes. PySide needs more companies interested > in this binding to support this initiative, but the > project is far from being dead. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
