On Friday, August 30, 2013 14:11:59 you wrote: > On Friday 23 August 2013 14:21:02 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I've written a somewhat lengthy and detailed article about the changes to > > our plugin system: > > > > http://vizzzion.org/blog/2013/08/kde-frameworks-5-plugin-factory-guts/ > > > > Thought it might be interesting for many people here. :) > > Good writeup, thanks. > You could link to it from KDE5PORTING.html? > > One thing it doesn't detail (because you didn't directly work on that) is > differences in where plugins get installed (the install dir changed), and > how they are found ($QT_PLUGIN_PATH). > > And one of the porting ideas is: if you don't need the trader to find your > plugins, don't use it anymore. E.g. if you can put all your plugins into a > subdir of the plugin dir, and you don't need any filtering (you just want to > load them all), iterate over that, no servicetype and no trader needed. We > still have to solve the use case of filtering/querying though, ideally in > Qt (so that the json metadata can actually be useful).
I've added this information and linked it from KDE5PORTING.html. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
