K_PLUGIN_FACTORY changes explained

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, August 30, 2013 14:11:59 you wrote:
> On Friday 23 August 2013 14:21:02 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I've written a somewhat lengthy and detailed article about the changes to
> > our plugin system:
> > 
> > http://vizzzion.org/blog/2013/08/kde-frameworks-5-plugin-factory-guts/
> > 
> > Thought it might be interesting for many people here. :)
> 
> Good writeup, thanks.
> You could link to it from KDE5PORTING.html?
> 
> One thing it doesn't detail (because you didn't directly work on that) is
> differences in where plugins get installed (the install dir changed), and
> how they are found ($QT_PLUGIN_PATH).
> 
> And one of the porting ideas is: if you don't need the trader to find your
> plugins, don't use it anymore. E.g. if you can put all your plugins into a
> subdir of the plugin dir, and you don't need any filtering (you just want to
> load them all), iterate over that, no servicetype and no trader needed. We
> still have to solve the use case of filtering/querying though, ideally in
> Qt (so that the json metadata can actually be useful).

I've added this information and linked it from KDE5PORTING.html.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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