[Development] Why does QFactoryLoader and QLibrary cache information in QSettings?

[Chris Meyer]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Chris Meyer <cmeyer1969+qt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why does QFactoryLoader and QLibrary cache information in QSettings?
>>
>> Does this cache information need to be available between application launches?
>
> This thread may be relevant to you:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/qt5-feedback@qt.nokia.com/msg00705.html

Perfect! For reference, I'll be using this patch (or something close)
on 4.7 which came from the thread you linked to:

http://pastebin.com/n9wkKXWn