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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-26660

Digia-generated Windows installer contains redundant copies of .dll's

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      After installation, the Desktop\Qt\5.0.0\msvc2010\lib folder contains duplicates of most of the .dll files from Desktop\Qt\5.0.0\msvc2010\bin. The duplicate files total to around 38Mib for the 32-bit build and 46Mib for the 64-bit build.

      As discovered in the Qt 4.x lifecycle, this duplication is unnecessary – it was sufficient to put the .dll's in the bin folder so that they are found when that folder is added to the %PATH%. I expect that the same is true for Qt 5.

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            iknd Iikka Eklund
            jasmcdon Jason McDonald (Closed Nokia Identity. Please assign to "macadder" instead) (Inactive)
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