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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 25 de October de 2011 12.38.25, Chris Meyer wrote:
> Why does QFactoryLoader and QLibrary cache information in QSettings?

It doesn't.

Nor anymore, in Qt 5, since 8ed47d961dc7e6f161030654d11cd330a542eadf.

The reason it did that is because it cached the determination of whether a file 
that looked like a plugin was actually a plugin. See the email that Robin 
linked to.

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