[Development] Splitting Qt Network out of qtbase (was: QtBase network failures)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:38:30 PDT Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
> (*) As for the UNC stuff - it seems that we are testing only string parsing
> code. We are not taking care of any of the actual network traffic or SMB
> protocol. So do we need to access a share from a remote server at all?
> Would it be an option to create and share a folder on the Windows VMs
> running those tests during provisioning, and then use '\\$(COMPUTERNAME)’?
> That works for me on a local VM at least, all QFile tests pass (and we
> could probably even enable tst_QFile::largeUncFileSupport and simplify
> tst_QFile::writeLargeDataBlock_data) after running this as admin:

This is a very good idea.

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