<table><tr><td style="">habacker added a comment.
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<p>It is designed in ECM to install mentioned helpers on windows (which are cross compiled packages on obs) in main executable install dir.</p>
<div class="remarkup-code-block" style="margin: 12px 0;" data-code-lang="console" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code" style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; padding: 12px; margin: 0; background: rgba(71, 87, 120, 0.08);"><span style="color: #000080">$ rpm -q -f /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/kioslave.exe </span>
<span style="color: #808080">mingw32-kdelibs4-4.14.60-30.27.noarch</span>
<span style="color: #000080">$ rpm -q -f /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/kioslave.exe </span>
<span style="color: #808080">mingw32-kio-5.47.0-11.28.noarch</span></pre></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>Everybody still shipping qt4 is on its own anyway,</p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunally yes, for example <a href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/windows%3Amingw%3Awin32/mingw32-kdelibs4" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/windows%3Amingw%3Awin32/mingw32-kdelibs4</a>, but this is unrelated, we are about talking about a patch for KF5, not qt4.</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>seeing that it's not possible to upstream patches (and there are quite a few needed to keep it building) as the git repo is locked down.</p></blockquote>
<p>It needs someone to take over maintenance of kdelibs.</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>And I'm pretty sure this patch breaks at least one other framework.</p></blockquote>
<p>no, it is only used in kio internally by klauncher to start io slaves.</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>Additionally there might be future maintenance costs,</p></blockquote>
<p>no, it simply follows the name style other kio executables installed in normal 'bin' dir already have e.g kcookiejar5, ktelnetservices5, ktrash5.</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>so I see no reason to flog a dead horse and penalize everybody else for it.</p></blockquote>
<p>In recent years, of the 104 KDE4 applications for Windows (<a href="https://community.kde.org/Windows/Releases/4.10.2" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://community.kde.org/Windows/Releases/4.10.2</a>), only 7 are available for KF5 (<a href="https://community.kde.org/Windows" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://community.kde.org/Windows</a>, minus the stable versions of Umbrello and KMymoney that are still on KDE4). KDE4 will probably stay as a base for a while.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R241 KIO</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D17650">https://phabricator.kde.org/D17650</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>habacker, Frameworks, lbeltrame, vonreth<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>heikobecker, ngraham, lbeltrame, kde-frameworks-devel, michaelh, bruns<br /></div>