On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:11 PM, David Faure <david.fa...@kdab.com> wrote:
> 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. > > That's true, but the binary file in QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation + "mime/mime.cache" should have been rebuilt with those additional XML files. > > 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....). -- Arnaud Vrac
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