[bdedit Enhancement] Switch from PyQT5 to PySide6?

[Gjacquenot]

bdedit relies on PyQt5, which has a GPL license, and that seems to create problems with PyQT5

Here is the license for PyQT5: PyQt5 is released under the GPL v3 license and under a commercial license that allows for the development of proprietary applications.

bdsim has a MIT license, but including PyQT5 makes the application a GPL application, unless buying a commercila license.

An alternative would be to switch from PyQT5 to PySide6

The main notable difference between PyQT5 and PySide6 is licensing — with PyQt6 being available under a GPL or commercial license, and PySide6 under a LGPL license.

The PySide6 wheel is an alias to other two wheels PySide6_Essentials and PySide6_Addons, which contains a predefined list of Qt Modules.

Switching from PyQT to PySide is documented here. Little more complicated than sed -i s/PyQT5/pyside/g source.py but can be done easily...

Moreover, QT recommend to use PySide6.

QTCreator can be used with PySide6.

[petercorke]

I did not know that! I will investigate and fix, but am a bit backlogged at the moment. Do you know if PySide is easier to install on Apple silicon? PyQt5 was a pain.

[Gjacquenot]

I have no experience with Apple Silicon, but some already had the problem and it seems to be fixed as indicated:

• @cmaureir wrote here PySide 6.2.2+ provides support for Apple Silicon, so you could simple run a pip install pyside6 and get it.
• There is a dedicated blog here

So it might be solved...

[cmaureir]

Yes, we support Apple Silicon since 6.2.2+ we have a node in our CI that builds universal wheels which are uploaded to PyPI https://pypi.org/project/PySide6/#files

[petercorke]

I've started this process, but this also involves an effective change from Qt5 to Qt6 which has non trivial changes in methods and enums. Will keep you posted on progress

[petercorke]

Still on my todo list and there is a pyside6 branch but still work to be done.