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authorFriedemann Kleint <[email protected]>2025-04-30 11:00:38 +0200
committerFriedemann Kleint <[email protected]>2025-05-09 06:53:38 +0200
commita5c9bc4dce531d56ddb4ae1111361fe0f8b220a5 (patch)
tree0a3149ade2e6d84a405b52838bedaa8b68b98e5e
parent05f8aa42fe6ff3fbda39c81565dccee8819b9c89 (diff)
Documentation: Recommend using a Dev Drive on Windows
Pick-to: 6.9 6.8 Change-Id: I2004096735d0a5852eeca23176e25ffd30a6fe4c Reviewed-by: Cristian Maureira-Fredes <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--sources/pyside6/doc/building_from_source/windows.rst11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sources/pyside6/doc/building_from_source/windows.rst b/sources/pyside6/doc/building_from_source/windows.rst
index d2510a1b6..737d045b3 100644
--- a/sources/pyside6/doc/building_from_source/windows.rst
+++ b/sources/pyside6/doc/building_from_source/windows.rst
@@ -19,8 +19,14 @@ Requirements
.. _OpenSSL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openssl/
.. _`Qt for Windows`: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows.html
-Building from source on Windows 10
-----------------------------------
+Building from source on Windows
+-------------------------------
+
+Creating a Dev Drive
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+We recommend using a `Dev Drive`_ for development work on Windows. This is a
+special partition with a fast file system that is excluded from virus scanning.
Creating a virtual environment
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -143,3 +149,4 @@ Remember to properly set the environment variables for Qt and PySide::
python examples\widgets\widgets\tetrix\tetrix.py
.. _`uv`: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
+.. _`Dev Drive`: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/