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.. _faq:
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Frequently Asked Questions
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**When did The Qt Company adopt PySide?**
In April 2016 `The Qt Company <https://qt.io>`_ decided to properly support the port. For more
information, see `<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyside-dev/pqwzngAGLWE>`_.
**Why use PySide6 and not PySide, or PySide2?**
The PySide Python module was developed for Qt 4 and PySide2 adapts
the same for Qt 5. From Qt 6 onwards, the module name changes to PySide6,
indicating the Qt version it supports.
**Where I can find information about the old PySide project?**
The project's old wiki page is available on PySide, but the project is now deprecated and not
supported.
**There are three wheels (pyside6, shiboken6, and shiboken6_generator), what's the difference?**
Before the official release, everything was in one big wheel, so it made sense to split these
into separate wheels, each for the major projects currently in development:
* **pyside6**: contains all the PySide6 modules to use the Qt framework; also depends on the
shiboken6 module.
* **shiboken6**: contains the shiboken6 module with helper functions for PySide6.
* **shiboken6_generator**: contains the generator binary that can work with a C++ project and a
typesystem to generate Python bindings.
If you want to generate bindings for a Qt/C++ project, there won't be any linking to the Qt
shared libraries; you need to do this by hand. We recommend building PySide6 from scratch
to have everything properly linked.
**Why is the shiboken6_generator not installed automatically?**
It's not necessary to install the shiboken6_generator to use PySide6. The package is a result of
the wheel splitting process. To use the generator, it's recommended to build it from scratch to
have the proper Qt linking.
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