KDE Development on Windows

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:17:17 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> On Monday 07 April 2014 Apr 14:08:38 Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 2014-04-02, 18:19:09, Chris wrote:
>>>> way dll's are loaded. App directory first, shared folders last. Why do I
>>>> even need ksycoca4 I'll never know. Are you really trying to emulate
>>>> windows registry? one of the worst inventions like ahh ever.
>>>
>>> The system config cache is not a config storage system.
>>>
>>> It  improves startup speed by creating a mmap-able cache of system
>>> configuration items. Not really needed on Windows where it is unlikely
>>> that
>>> there are system configuration files.
>>
>> Well, you need it to load plugins with KServiceTypeTrader -- without a
>> sycoca cache, that won't work as far as I know. If there's a way to make
>> KServiceTypeTrader bypass sycoca and scan the desktop files directly, that
>> would be awesome, of course.
>
> did you check whether this situation regarding ksycoca changed with KF5 ?
>

Last time I checked -- which was around October/November it was fine. We 
could just load the plugins from a specified directory (this was for the 
Jolla port, actually).

I haven't managed to keep abreast with newer developments, though.

Boud