Hi all, As some of you will know, a couple of people have been working on getting some patches integrated into QStandardPaths upstream in Qt, in order to allow KDE applications and unit tests to be able to locate their resources more easily on Windows and OSX. This would aid us both in a developer and CI capacity.
I'm sorry to report that upstream appears to be completely unwilling to accept the necessary changes, with environment variables being categorically ruled out as an option on both OSX and Windows. As a result, when the CI system deploys for these platforms, it will be without any form of unit testing for KDE software as the CI system will be unable to pass along the information necessary to find resources such as icons, plugins, etc. Leaving them enabled would essentially break numerous frameworks and applications results on the CI system, with developers being unable to do anything to correct this. In terms of future distribution of our applications on these platforms, it appears that we will need to make adjustments to how we install resources to more directly tie into the mechanisms Qt requires you to use on these platforms. This will likely mean a completely different folder structure depending on the platform, and will probably require changes across many codebases within KDE. For those interested in the discussion, please see https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/103277/ and https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-44473 I'd like to thank Jeremy, David, Rene and Marko for their work on this. An extreme pity it hasn't worked out. Sadly, Ben _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
