Porting from PyQt5 to PySide2, take two

Posted on Fri 10 January 2020 in Programming • Tagged with Python, PyQt5, PySide2

Of course, porting from PyQt5 to PySide2 any not trivial codebase like Punteggi require some more work than what I needed to port Vtf.
The big problem, since this port was done under Archlinux, was to install PySide2. The package that come with the distro are missing the pyside2-uic and …


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Porting from PyQt5 to PySide2

Posted on Tue 07 January 2020 in Programming • Tagged with Python, PyQt5, PySide2

After some years, I finally decide to port some (if not all, given time) my Python project from PyQt4 to PySide2.

The reason is that now PySide2 is the official port while some years ago PyQt was a better choice.

The first, just because is much more simple than the …


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Making the MiniBookDB database public

Posted on Sat 04 January 2020 in Programming • Tagged with Python, MiniBookDB

The biggest limitation (by design) of MiniBookDB is that it is designed to be deployed only on private network, so no security features. Being in a private network without being accessible from the outside make difficult to check if you already own a book when you are buying one in …


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