[KDE/Mac] QStandardPaths possible solution

[Christoph Cullmann]

> Ok I got this qt built with dbus at last, and almost all frameworks build
> against it now with XDG_DATA_DIRS set (to /usr/local/share since I'm
> building with kdesrc-build) And it seems to fix the issues of finding data
> files from the /usr/local/share location fine. I ran kanagram with it and it
> finds it's vocabulary files fine, etc. I guess the next step is submitting
> this to gerrit? Does this patch look ok to everyone here? If you see
> anything I should change speak up now, otherwise I'll post it to gerrit
> tomorrow.
Hmm, why is /opt/local/share hardcoded but not /usr/local/share? I think the last one
is often used, too, e.g. by Homebrew.

> 
> thanks,
> Jeremy
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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Jeremy Whiting < jpwhiting at kde.org > wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:41 AM, René J.V. < rjvbertin at gmail.com > wrote:
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> On Tuesday January 06 2015 05:20:07 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
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> > 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
> 
> Really? 5.4 will remain at 5.4.0 which was release about one (1) month ago?!
> Is it such a bad release, or has the Qt Company become so good that they can
> skip the patchlevel releases? I presume that 5.4 and 5.5 are ABI
> incompatible as to be expected, no?
> 
> No there will be 5.4.1 and such, but I think those are only for bug fixes,
> not new features. I'm not sure if this change qualifies as a bug fix or not.
> I would think not, but I could be wrong.
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> > macports/homebrew/fink packages of qt 5.3 and 5.4 though I suppose.
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> Of course ... what other choice do we have?
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> Yep.
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> R.
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