KStars on Windows

[Nicolas Fella]

On 09/03/2022 13:26, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> On 09/03/2022 08:30, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> Hi Jasem,
>>
>> Recently some changes were introduced to Frameworks which means that
>> they now enforce more rigorously the platforms on which they build.
>>
>> This means that KAuth is no longer available on Windows -
>> unfortunately though it looks like KStars has a mandatory dependency
>> on KAuth.
>>
>> Are you able to make this optional or should we disable Windows CI
>> builds for KStars?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> it looks like KStars doesn't use KAuth directly at all (ever since
> https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/commit/b17a8a3d4453e60d7f34023b8d633a80ebc37638).
>
> I suspect that the find_package you are seeing comes from the public
> interface of some dependency (KConfigWidgets comes to my mind, but I
> need to look closer).
>
> Cheers
>
> Nico

Scratch that, the find_package is right there. The rest is true, it
seems to be unused/leftover.

https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/570