On 25/02/15 01:04, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 00:44:49 Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Still, I don't understand the strong resistance to implementing this. >> Supporting XDG_* everywhere helps portability and does not hurt the >> non-freedesktop.org platforms in any way. If the user doesn't use those >> environment variables, then nothing changes at all. > > The resistance is understanding why it's needed.
Exactly. > First and foremost, as Jeremy said, QSP is lacking functionality even for the > standard way of doing things on those OS. Which are fixes to QSP's implementation on those platforms, and doesn't require new APIs or hooks/backdoors. > Second, there's also the question of unmodified Unix libraries and shared, > global resources. Given this latter argument, I think we will have to > implement the XDG variables. I'd like to see these unmodified Unix libraries and shared resources, and in which case having XDG variables helps. For non-framework libraries perhaps an extensions to QLibraryInfo that lets the library figure out its own install prefix is more appropriate. We also already have a cross platform solution for library resources: QRC, so some of these use-cases may be better supported by that. tor arne _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
