[scribus-dev] Scripter: Your feedback is required

[Andreas Vox]

Am 11.04.2014 um 17:52 schrieb Chris Barker:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Andreas Vox <avox at arcor.de> wrote:
> Hi Chris!
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> Currently we use PyQt, which in turn uses SIP. That way we only have to register the right QObjects and PyQt does the rest.
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> If I understand correctly, PySide does something similar?
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> yup -- though I think it uses its own binding-generation tool, rather than SIP. Not sure why. IIUC, the primary point of PySide is to provide a LGPL, rather than GPL set of bindings. As Scribus is GPL (correct?) , then you might as well stick with PyQT and SIP.
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No, if we want to expose functionality to Scripter, we make QObjects - either the original objects or special API objects. That has the advantage that we can use the QObject model for other parts like UI bindings as well.

> So are you using SIP to wrap the non-QT parts of Scribus? I'd suspect that would be the way to go in this case, though I've never actually uses SIP....
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> Sounds like you're in good shape to move this forward.
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Thanks for the feedback!

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