[KDE/Mac] QStandardPaths possible solution

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/01/2015, at 8:46 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > No, kf5 doesn't require Qt 5.4 yet, but some of plasma does iirc. On the
> other hand, getting this into qt itself is not going to happen on Qt 5.3
> branch (it's frozen) or 5.4 (it's also frozen), which is why I
> created/updated the patch for the 5.4 branch (I guess I really should have
> used the dev branch instead as that will become 5.5). I'm not sure if the
> patch will apply to 5.3 or not, the patch was changing
> qstandardpaths_mac.cpp which doesn't even exist in the 5.4 branch (it's
> qstandardpaths_mac.mm here) If it was .mm in 5.3 it should apply or would
> be simple to tweak so that it does apply for macports to use I guess.
>
> Also, I think you will find that there is a change from DataLocation type
> to
> AppDataLocation and AppLocalDataLocation types, with DataLocation
> being deprecated, but still supported (== AppDataLocation, IIRC).
>
> So, separate patches?
>

Yep, I noticed that in the sources also. Separate patches makes sense to
me, but I don't think patches to 5.3 (or 5.4 for that matter) will make it
upstream since those are frozen. We can keep those in
macports/homebrew/fink packages of qt 5.3 and 5.4 though I suppose.


>
> Cheers, Ian W.
>
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:41 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday January 05 2015 13:51:18 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> >
> > > I've looked at Marko's patch and had to tweak it a bit to get it to
> apply
> > > to qt 5.4 branch. I've attached a first try here while it builds at the
> > > same time so I can test it.
> >
> > Could we please make sure the fix applies to Qt 5.3 also? That's what's
> currently in MacPorts, and unless the maintainer intends to upgrade it to
> 5.4 soon, that's what I'll be working on to make it co-installable with Qt4
> ...
> >
> > KF5 doesn't yet require Qt5.4, or does it??
> >
> > R.
> >
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