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[Mike Sheldon <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 03:30 +0100, Mike Sheldon wrote:
> 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.
> 

 Apologies, I just noticed that there is an existing thread in the
archive discussing the potential inclusion of PyQt5 in 14.04, so I'm
sorry if I've rehashed some points already made, although no final
statement either for or against the inclusion of PyQt seems to have been
given.

Cheers,
 Mike.