Change in qt/qtbase[dev]: QStandardPaths: on Windows, add APPDIR and APPDIR/data for G...

[Jeremy Whiting]

Interesting... I wonder if a similar approach would be acceptable for
OS X or not.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:09 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> I think this change will be interesting for you guys :-)
>
> Starting from Qt 5.7 it will be possible to install GenericDataLocation files (PREFIX/share on unix)
> into <appdir>\data on Windows, where <appdir> is the directory where you install all the .exe.
>
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> Subject: Change in qt/qtbase[dev]: QStandardPaths: on Windows, add APPDIR and APPDIR/data for G...
> Date: Thursday 13 August 2015, 18:07:21
> From: Qt CI Bot (Code Review) <gerrit-noreply at qt-project.org>
> To: David Faure <david.faure at kdab.com>
> CC: Samuel Gaist <samuel.gaist at edeltech.ch>, Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint at theqtcompany.com>, Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann at theqtcompany.com>, Qt Sanity Bot <qt_sanitybot at qt-project.org>, Alan Alpert <aalpert at blackberry.com>, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
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> Qt CI Bot has approved a build with this change and it was merged.
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> Change subject: QStandardPaths: on Windows, add APPDIR and APPDIR/data for GenericDataLocation
> ......................................................................
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>
> QStandardPaths: on Windows, add APPDIR and APPDIR/data for GenericDataLocation
>
> This allows multiple applications installed into the same directory,
> to share data files without polluting a more global directory
> like C:/ProgramData.
>
> Change-Id: Id5f4f9bc9d2ccb7ec677babcc08c1c5a641178f6
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> M src/corelib/io/qstandardpaths.cpp
> M src/corelib/io/qstandardpaths_win.cpp
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Approvals:
>   Samuel Gaist: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve
>   Qt Sanity Bot: Sanity review passed
>   Thiago Macieira: Looks good to me, approved
>
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