QtVCP documentation to set up an development environment

Hallo,

i would like t contribute to QtVCP, but I was not able to find documentation about setting up an development system.
Did i just search the wrong way, or is there no documentation?

Next question, will you go on with the old python 2 or will the system support also python 3?

Norbert

Hello Norbert!
I am happy you are interested in the project - I hope we can work well together again!

I assume you mean setting up designer.
using qt5vcp_py2 look in /lib/qtvcp/designer/README.txt

If you mean documentation for qtvcp - there are some HTML documents in the usual place.

Qtvcp will continue to use python2 as there is no python3 libraries in linuxcnc.
I did cobble together a branch with a proof of concept python3 HAL library.
We would need a python3 library for linuxcnc.
With those two libraries, then QtVCP could be converted to python3.

BUT, I don't think it is wise to require users to use two types of python to use linuxcnc. We need to convert the whole project -BIG job. I seriously don't think we have enough active developers to do this in a reasonable amount of time.

Chris M

Andy:
I have once converted qtvcp to python3 along time ago using this library.
It work pretty good IIRC.

But it does not work on C/C++ extensions - that is the big job part.

Chris M

I should clarify - I converted (an older) qtvcp to python3 right up until I realized it wouldn't work with out the C/C++ extension libraries.

Chris M