Last week, we released the Enthought Tool Suite 3.6. John Wiggins made many improvements and bug fixes to Kiva, Enable, and Chaco. And thanks to Evan Patterson, the TraitsBackendQt now supports PySide (as well as PyQt4).
We are also happy to announce that immediately after the release, the ETS repository was moved from subversion to git, and is now hosted on github.
This new ETS will be included in EPD 7.0, which is Python 2.7-based and is scheduled to be released on February 8.
Over the last couple of weeks I added support for PySide to the majority of the ETS packages, including Traits, Chaco and Enable. I have only tested personally with Ubuntu 10.10 and PySide Beta 1, but we’re beginning to test with OS X (Windows is next). With any luck, the next ETS release will have full PySide support, and the next EPD release will include PySide eggs.
Right now, to use PySide in ETS, you have to set an environment variable QT_API=pyside. I hope by the time ETS 3.6 is released we can ditch the environment variable, but I can’t make any promises.