KDE Frameworks: dropping dead(?) Python bindings generation code?

[Jonathan Riddell]

KDE neon is fine with removing them, we've never had any luck packaging
them and never any request to do so

Jonathan


On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 00:01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is anybody of you packaging KDE Frameworks still generating and packaging
> also
> any Python bindings of it?
>
> Or could we remove the logic from the KDE Frameworks sources in one of the
> next KF 5.* releases, e.g. like this for KCoreAddons:
>     https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/merge_requests/198
>
> Please tell
>     "Fine with removing, not using that since X."
> or
>     "Meh, we are using that, please keep it (and let me help fix it)"
>
> Motivation is that it seems the binding generation is broken as with
> current
> upstream software, with no official KF Python bindings maintainer around
> and
> no-one else who seems to work on fixing that. Even more might it need a
> big
> rewrite rather.
> E.g. on #kde-devel I was told that"pyqt5 5.15.6 + sip4" do no more go
> together, referencing
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2021-November/044346.html
> :
> > It wasn't an intentional breakage but it's not something I'm going to
> rush
> to fix.
>
> Also KDE CI has not been covering the binding generation for some time due
> to
> being a fragile thing before and without someone fixing it. So things
> might
> have regressed without anyone noticing, even more due to all the KF6
> preparations.
>
> So if indeed this is now dead code without anyone using it, and any future
> revival would need different logic anyway, we could clean up what there is
> now
> and have less things to juggle with during the KF6 preparations.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
>
>
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