The PySide team is happy to announce the second beta release of PySide: Python for Qt. PySide provides a complete set of LGPL-licensed Qt bindings for Python, including full QML and QtMobility support. Any software written for N900 using PySide will work as-is on the upcoming Harmattan and MeeGo platforms.

The binary packages for PySide 1.0.0~beta2 are already available in the maemo.org extras-devel repository. To use them, install the python-pyside metapackage which depends on every individual module package. Respectively, PySide Mobility may be installed using the python-qtmobility metapackage.

The source code packages can be acquired by referring to our download wiki page [1] or by pulling the relevant tagged versions from our git repositories [2].

Major changes since 1.0.0~beta1
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PySide now supports exposing list-like properties to QML using QDeclarativeListProperty. Documentation is still rather sparse, but refer to the example to see a how it works [5].

Other than the QML work, we have been working on fixing outstanding bugs. Since beta1, a total of 16 high-priority bugs have been fixed. See the list of fixed bugs at the end of this message.

Path towards 1.0 release
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There are still plenty of outstanding bugs in our Bugzilla [3]. To
improve our quality in a controlled fashion, we plan to do probably a couple more beta releases after the current one.

About PySide
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PySide is the Nokia-sponsored Python Qt bindings project, providing access to not only the complete Qt 4.7 framework but also Qt Mobility, as well as to generator tools for rapidly generating bindings for any Qt-based libraries.

The PySide project is developed in the open, with all facilities you'd expect from any modern OSS project such as all code in a git repository [2], an open Bugzilla [3] for reporting bugs, and an open design process [4]. We welcome any contribution without requring a transfer of copyright.

List of bugs fixed
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383 qelapsedtimer_wrapper.cpp: No such file or directory
415 phonon bindings does not build
468 Segfaults, segfaults and more segfaults
489 PySide.QtGui.QImage with string buffer argument
491 pyside doesn't respect BUILD_TESTS
500 If an instance of QPrintDialog is created a deadlock happens on
shutdown.
505 CppObject was destroyed before __del__ be called
508 qmltopy1 crashes when setContextProperty is called twice
without keeping a reference
512 QGridLayout::getItemPosition() is not available
513 Hardcoded bool return type for operator overloads
517 Documentation for QtDeclarative is not linked in contents.html,
modules.html
518 The file "genindex.html" is not found (linked from
contents.html)
524 Debugging errors during work of createpackage.js on windows is
hard
527 Two different PySide Wikis
542 New style signals/slots + curried functions: unexpected
argument during call
543 Regression: Signals with default values broken


References
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[1] http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideDownloads
[2] http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside
[3] http://bugs.openbossa.org/
[4] http://www.pyside.org/docs/pseps/psep-0001.html
[5] http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/pysid...listproperties