Hi all, I'm interested in porting a few of my MeeGo applications to Ubuntu Touch, principle amongst these being Rockwatch, which makes it possible to use Pebble smart watches with MeeGo (and hopefully soon also with Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish). It'd be impractical to rewrite the application in C++ as this would necessitate completely rewriting libpebble which is only available as a Python module.
Currently PyQt5 is available in the Ubuntu Touch repositories, but since it's not installed by default and Click has no means of resolving dependencies it can't be easily made use of for applications being distributed to the general public. Potentially you could bundle PyQt5 as part of a Click package, but it'd seem wasteful to do so with a component that'd be common to almost all Python applications on the platform. As such I'd like to suggest that people consider the inclusion of PyQt5 (or potentially PyOtherSide for non-GPL'd applications) in the Ubuntu Touch base system. There's a wealth of good mobile oriented Python QT applications in the MeeGo community which I think Ubuntu Touch could benefit from and for which the migration to PyQt5 and QtQuick 2.0 would be far simpler than a complete rewrite. Thanks, Mike. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
