Future plans for pywinauto?

[rp2700]

Hello,

This is a really good tool and I am able to automate different types of GUI element for AUT.
But I am concerned about the future releases. Are there any improvements / bug fixes / releases pipe lined? As I can see the last release was in 2019 so are there any migration plans or upgrades for this tool.

Requesting to please comment on this.

[junkmd]

These are the pinned issues;

• Linux support (backend='atspi' based on AT-SPI technology) #328
• Support for MacOS #335
• Add pywinauto script generator #332

And several PRs related to these have been submitted (although there have been no recent activities).

I am also a maintainer of comtypes, one of the dependencies of this package, and have a very strong interest in this package as well.
I have submitted the following issue.
#1265

[junkmd]

This package still supports Python2.7.

I would share what I know about comtypes and pywin32 on which this package depends.

Compared to the number of stars and watchers in the GitHub repository for comtypes, the number of projects that depend on it should be enormous, as indicated by the libraries.io.
And my project depends strongly on it.
However, the comtypes codebase was pretty legacy style, so over the past year I have focused on refactoring (and adding a few features) to that codebase, and have become a repository collaborator of comtypes.
Several new backward-compatible versions of comtypes have been released. And I am planning to make some non-backward-compatible changes to comtypes, such as dropping Python2 support and adding runtime code inline type annotations.

pywin32 is no longer supporting Python2(The CI testing is passed because a suitable version for Python 2.7 is installed by the wheel).

[rp2700]

@junkmd - Thank you for commenting!
@vasily-v-ryabov - Can you also please comment about this as we are looking from a long term solution? Are there any releases planned for the future? Any enhancements / fixes going on?

[vasily-v-ryabov]

Hi @rp2700 and thanks for your interest! Yes, I have plans to get back to maintaining pywinauto. Unfortunately internal complexity (despite external easiness) doesn't attract a lot of contributors. Currently I still have no much resources to finish macOS, Linux and WPF dll injection backends with some re-factoring on Windows in the atspi branch. I think this autumn or winter will be better time to revive my contributions. This is a hobby for me, and current personal activities a little bit displaced pywinauto, but these activities are expected to mostly finish till October.

[junkmd]

Hello @vasily-v-ryabov !

I think I could contribute a bit to the Windows refactoring.
Once my summer vacation is over, I plan to start working on some refactoring.

[vasily-v-ryabov]

@junkmd the only thing I would prefer is making functional refactoring first, only then we can think about adding typing. 😄