remove PySide2 from CI + tools (do not remove PySide2 from the code)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -21,13 +21,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - name-suffix: "PySide2 sdist"
-            os: ubuntu-20.04
-            python-version: '3.7'
-            BUILD_COMMAND: sdist
-            QT_BINDING: PySide2
-            RUN_TESTS_OPTIONS: --qt-binding=PySide2 --no-opengl --low-mem
-
           - name-suffix: "PyQt5 sdist"
             os: ubuntu-20.04
             python-version: '3.7'
@@ -131,9 +124,6 @@ jobs:
             pip install -r ci/requirements-pinned.txt;
           fi
           pip install --pre -r requirements.txt
-          if [ "${{ matrix.QT_BINDING }}" == "PySide2" ]; then
-            pip install --pre pyside2;
-          fi
           if [ "${{ matrix.QT_BINDING }}" == "PySide6" ]; then
             pip install --pre pyside6;
           fi

ci/appveyor.yml

@@ -30,12 +30,6 @@ environment:
           WITH_GL_TEST: True
           PIP_OPTIONS: "-q --pre"
 
-        # Python 3.8
-        - PYTHON_DIR: "C:\\Python38-x64"
-          QT_BINDING: "PySide2"
-          WITH_GL_TEST: True
-          PIP_OPTIONS: "-q"
-
         # Python 3.7
         - PYTHON_DIR: "C:\\Python37-x64"
           QT_BINDING: "PySide6"

ci/info_platform.py

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
                 print("    %s max_workgroup_size is %s" % (d, d.max_work_group_size))
 
 
-for binding_name in ("PyQt5", "PySide2", "PySide6", "PyQt6"):
+for binding_name in ("PyQt5", "PySide6", "PyQt6"):
     # Check Qt version in subprocess to avoid issues with importing multiple Qt bindins
     cmd = [
         sys.executable,

doc/source/license.rst

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Note:
   silx uses the Qt library for its graphical user interfaces.
   A word of caution is to be provided.
   If users develop and distribute software using modules accessing Qt by means of Riverbank Computing Qt bindings PyQt4 or PyQt5, those users will be conditioned by the license of their PyQt4/5 software (GPL or commercial).
-  If the end user does not own a commercial license of PyQt4 or PyQt5 and wishes to be free of any distribution condition, (s)he should be able to use PySide2 because it uses the LGPL license.
+  If the end user does not own a commercial license of PyQt4 or PyQt5 and wishes to be free of any distribution condition, (s)he should be able to use PySide6 because it uses the LGPL license.
 
 The following list provides the copyright and license of the different source files of the project:
 

requirements.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 --trusted-host www.silx.org
 --find-links http://www.silx.org/pub/wheelhouse/
---only-binary numpy,h5py,scipy,PySide2,PyQt5,PySide6,PyQt6
+--only-binary numpy,h5py,scipy,PyQt5,PySide6,PyQt6
 
 # Required dependencies (from setup.py setup_requires and install_requires)
 numpy >= 1.12