[Development] RFD: plugins vs QStringLiterals

[Paul Olav Tvete]

On Friday 6. November 2015 10.10.52 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> But before I go and modify QFactoryLoader... what is that class for? Can
> anyone find out from the old history? It traces its existence back to "Long
> live Qt 4.5".

Added by Matthias in commit 89df363e4a795d67342d04e478af592618e16363 at Thu 
May 6 13:28:09 2004

"added the new plugin stuff. Not yet used, not yet compiled."

Hope that helps. :p 

But seriously, there does not seem to be a lot more information in the old 
history than what's in the code today.

- Paul