On Monday 23 February 2015 12:00:51 Knoll Lars wrote: > Yes, I still don’t like the fact we’re embedding a 1.7M xml file in Qt > Core at all. I’m not too fond of checking the binary file into the > repositories, but it’s probably still better than continuing with the XML > file.
Yes. The binary file would be 109KB, much smaller already. > David, I can’t see how the use case of the app installing additional mime > types is supported today (as there is no API to register additional XML > files or anything like that. Trust me (or read the unit test), it works :-) Additional XML files are found by looking at the filesystem, QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation + "mime/packages/", as per the mime spec. > So I can’t see how embedding the binary blob > instead of the XML file will give us a feature regression today. See previous email. Can be fixed, of course, but it's a bit more effort (I won't have time in the near future, but maybe later....). -- David Faure | david.fa...@kdab.com | Managing Director KDAB France KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.fr KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
