- Update to 8.0.0:
- This is a major release which removes a number of things
which have been deprecated for a number of years. The most
significant change in this release is that the Qt toolkit
backend has been moved from the pyface.ui.qt4 package to the
- Additionally this release uses the module-level __getattr__
system introduced in Python 3.7 to delay imports from
the api modules which have side-effects, particularly
toolkit selection. This means that you can, for example,
import pyface.api and toolkit selection will be deferred
until you actually request a class or object which is
toolkit-dependent. Part of this included adding formal
interfaces for ActionManager and its subclasses
- adds support for Python 3.11 and drops support for Python 3.6
- adds support for PySide 6.4+ and the new enum system
- removes code supporting PyQt4, and supports more modern
imports from pyface.qt, such as pyface.qt.QtWidgets.
- removes many things flagged as deprecated in Pyface 7
- consistently add interface classes to api modules.
- adds new Field subclasses, including an ImageField and
LabelField
- moves to a pyproject.toml-based packaging solution, removing
setup.py
- Add skip-qt4-tests.patch to overcome gh#enthought/pyface#1252
- Comment out dependency on Pillow to overcome gh#enthought/pyface#1255