Installing qml caches

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Volkov <a.volkov at rusbitech.ru> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It would be nice to install .qmlc files in addition to .qml files to reduce
> start-up time of applications.
> They are generated with qmlcachegen. For Qt 5.11:
> qmlcachegen -o example.qmlc qxample.qml
>
> Currently qml files are usually installed the following way:
> install(DIRECTORY qml/ DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_QMLDIR}/org/kde/kcm)
>
> So this could be changed to something like
> ecm_install_qml(qml org/kde/kcm)
>
> I wonder whether someone already working on this or want to implement such a
> function?
> If not, I'll try to do it myself.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander.
>

I'm not sure this makes sense, as far as I know it's not a
binary-compatible format, so distros would have to recompile every
application with qmlc files upon Qt update.

Aleix