BETSEE 1.1.0.0 (Nice Nestor) released.
Significant changes include:
* Installation improvements:
* BETSE 1.1.0 required. Each version of BETSEE now requires the same
version of BETSE, excluding the trailing patch number of that
version of BETSEE (e.g., BETSEE 1.1.0.0 and 1.1.0.1 both require
BETSE 1.1.0). Since newer versions of BETSE typically break backward
compatibility with older versions of BETSEE, this does not extend to
newer versions of BETSE. Prior versions of BETSEE erroneously
pretended to support arbitrary versions of BETSE.
* Runtime improvements:
* High-DPI scaling detection. Platforms natively supporting high-DPI
scaling are now implicitly detected at application startup, thanks
to the newly defined betse.util.os.displays.is_dpi_scaling() tester.
* Testing improvements:
* Top-level "test" shell script. This script has been imported
verbatim from the BETSE codebase in preparation for eventual
continuous integration (CI).
* GitLab CI configuration. A first-draft implementation of a
".gitlab-ci.yml" file has been added to the repository. Note that
this configuration lacks "pytest-xvfb" and "pytest-qt" support and
hence is currently broken.
* Fatal errors resolved:
* PYSIDE-1092. pyside2uic 5.13.0 broke backward API compatibility by
requiring that the public
pyside2uic.Compiler.compiler.UICompiler.__init__() method now be
passed a new mandatory "all_pyside2_modules" parameter. Since the
pyside2uic.__init__.compileUi() function defaults this parameter to
simply "PySide2.__all__" (i.e., the list of all compiled PySide2 C
extensions), it would have been trivial for Qt engineers to render
this parameter optional via the same default. They did not; ergo, we
do. For further details, see also:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1092
* Application shutdown exception. A fatal (albeit technically
innocuous) exception raised at application shutdown caused by the
now-guaranteed closure of previously open logfile handles has been
summarily resolved.
* Deprecation warnings resolved:
* A deprecation from the "betsee" script wrapper.
* API generalizations:
* Generalized the "betsee.guiappmeta" submodule:
* Overrode the late-time and thus safe BetseeAppMeta.deinit() method
to call the betsee.util.app.guiappwindow.unset_main_window()
function (which effectively garbage collects the entire Qt object
stack), previously called by the early-time and thus unsafe
betsee.gui.window.guiwindow.QBetseeMainWindow.closeEvent() method.
* Generalized the "betsee.util.io.log.guiloghandle" submodule:
* Refactored the "LogHandlerSignal" subclass integrating the Python
logging API with the Qt signals and slots API:
* Overrode the standard logging.Handler.close() method to
explicitly nullify the signal to which this subclass forwards
logging messages.
* Overrode the standard logging.Handler.emit() method to silently
reduce to a noop when this signal is nullified (i.e., when the
close() method has been called at least once).