[PySide] PySide/Shiboken status update

[Matti Airas]

Hi,

in addition to Setanta's mail about the Shiboken progress, I thought I 
could write a bit about the near-future roadmap. Hugo just mentioned 
today that 79% of the Shiboken QtCore tests now pass! Even better, that 
already includes the really difficult parts. Our next immediate goal is 
to get the remaining 21% in order.

To finish Shiboken QtCore implementation, there are 3 larger items to do 
in addition to a few smaller bugs. The large items are about C++ object 
type discovery, threading support, and porting the code injections for 
QtCore from Boost PySide to Shiboken. We plan to have the first two 
items done during the upcoming two-week sprint starting tomorrow, so 
that after the next sprint after that (one month from now) we would have 
a fully functional PySide/Shiboken QtCore implementation. Once this is 
finished, we expect porting of the other modules as well as some initial 
stabilization to take two more sprints. If this holds, we can make our 
first Shiboken-based PySide release in mid-March!

The first Shiboken-based PySide would have feature-parity to the current 
one, after which there would be finally time to work on the new-style 
signals and slots as well as the Python 3 port.

Cheers,

ma.